{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/automatic-disambiguation-of-french-discourse","title":"Automatic Disambiguation of French Discourse Connectives","arxiv_id":"1704.05162","date":"2017-04-18","proceeding":null,"authors":["Majid Laali","Leila Kosseim"],"abstract":"Discourse connectives (e.g. however, because) are terms that can explicitly\nconvey a discourse relation within a text. While discourse connectives have\nbeen shown to be an effective clue to automatically identify discourse\nrelations, they are not always used to convey such relations, thus they should\nfirst be disambiguated between discourse-usage non-discourse-usage. In this\npaper, we investigate the applicability of features proposed for the\ndisambiguation of English discourse connectives for French. Our results with\nthe French Discourse Treebank (FDTB) show that syntactic and lexical features\ndeveloped for English texts are as effective for French and allow the\ndisambiguation of French discourse connectives with an accuracy of 94.2%.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05162v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.05162v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"automatic-disambiguation-of-french-discourse","repo_url":"https://github.com/mjlaali/french-dc-disambiguation","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}