Exploiting a lexical resource for discourse connective disambiguation in German (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | a connective lexicon can be a valuable resource for languages with limited PDTB-style annotations . connectives are usually understood to be ambiguous in two different ways . |
| Approach: | They propose to augment a purely-empirical approach to connective identification and sense classification in German . they find that a connective lexicon can be a valuable resource for those languages with a large PDTB-style-annotated coprus . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves on published results and achieves an F1 score for German sense classification. |
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