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Discourse Markers in Speech: Distinctive Features and Corpus Annotation

What it is about

Discourse marker annotation schemes (RST, PDTB) were designed for planned writing; the paper shows, with examples and counts from DisFrEn (a French–English spoken corpus of 161,700 words with 8,743 annotated markers), how spoken markers differ. Structures are truncated or independent (one argument missing or implicit) and scope can be far-reaching (over a digression or several utterances). Meaning is vague and multifunctional: markers serve propositional relations, structural functions (topic shift, resuming, opening, closing) and modal or interpersonal ones (agreement, monitoring, emphasis); propositional uses are 36.5% of markers in news broadcasts but only 20% in conversation. And in speech is addition only 57% of the time, then specification 16%, consequence 9%, topic shift 4% and more, whereas in PDTB's written news it is conjunction 91%. Up to 20% of spoken markers occur in strings (and so, but I mean, and then), either adding functions or composing one. The authors recommend schemes that allow a missing argument, non-relational uses, several simultaneous functions and marked co-occurrence.

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For Mova

38. Dialogue, discourse markers and reported speech §4–5 (discourse markers, interjections), 36-discourse-relations.md §6, §11.1. Code: prag/src/frames.rs, prag/src/feats.rs, prag/data/cues.tsv (intj). Measures: frame bench cause/next precision, question-reading errors on quotes starting with Why,.

Topics: Discourse analysis

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The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.5087/dad.2017.207

@inproceedings{crible2017discourse,
  title = {{Discourse Markers in Speech: Distinctive Features and Corpus Annotation}},
  author = {Crible, Ludivine and Cuenca, Maria-Josep},
  booktitle = {Dialogue \& Discourse},
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.5087/dad.2017.207},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5087/dad.2017.207}
}

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