Inducing Discourse Marker Inventories from Lexical Knowledge Graphs (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Discourse marker inventories are important tools for the development of discourse parsers and corpora with discourse annotations. |
| Approach: | They explore the potential of multilingual lexical knowledge graphs to induce multilingual discourse marker lexicons using concept propagation methods previously developed in translation inference across dictionaries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can induce multilingual discourse marker lexicons using multilingual knowledge graphs. |
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