@InProceedings{davoodi-kosseim:2017:RANLP,
  author    = {Davoodi, Elnaz  and  Kosseim, Leila},
  title     = {Automatic Identification of AltLexes using Monolingual Parallel Corpora},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017},
  month     = {September},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Varna, Bulgaria},
  publisher = {INCOMA Ltd.},
  pages     = {195--200},
  abstract  = {The automatic identification of discourse relations is still a challenging task
	in natural language processing. Discourse connectives, such as since or but,
	are the most informative cues to identify explicit relations; however discourse
	parsers typically use a closed inventory of such connectives. As a result,
	discourse relations signalled by markers outside these inventories (i.e.
	AltLexes) are not detected as effectively. In this paper, we propose a novel
	method to leverage parallel corpora in text simplification and lexical
	resources to automatically identify alternative lexicalizations that signal
	discourse relation. When applied to the Simple Wikipedia and Newsela corpora
	along with WordNet and the PPDB, the method allowed the automatic discovery of
	91 AltLexes.},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_027}
}