A Repository of Rules and Lexical Resources for Discourse Structure Analysis: the Case of Explanation Structures

Sarah Bourse, Patrick Saint-Dizier


Abstract
In this paper, we present an analysis method, a set of rules, lexical resources dedicated to discourse relation identification, in particular for explanation analysis. The following relations are described with prototypical rules: instructions, advice, warnings, illustration, restatement, purpose, condition, circumstance, concession, contrast and some forms of causes. Rules are developed for French and English. The approach used to describe the analysis of such relations is basically generative and also provides a conceptual view of explanation. The implementation is realized in Dislog, using the logic-based platform, and the Dislog language, that also allows for the integration of knowledge and reasoning into rules describing the structure of explanation.
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L12-1019
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2778–2785
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/137_Paper.pdf
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Sarah Bourse and Patrick Saint-Dizier. 2012. A Repository of Rules and Lexical Resources for Discourse Structure Analysis: the Case of Explanation Structures. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2778–2785, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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