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Title: | Examples and Specifications that Prove a Point: Identifying Elaborative and Argumentative Discourse Relations |
Author(s): | Scholman, Merel Cleo Johanna Demberg, Vera |
Language: | English |
Title: | Dialogue & Discourse |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 2 |
Startpage: | 56 |
Endpage: | 83 |
Publisher/Platform: | [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | Examples and specifications occur frequently in text, but not much is known about how how readers interpret them. Looking at how they're annotated in existing discourse corpora, we find that anno-tators often disagree on these types of relations; specifically, there is disagreement about whether these relations are elaborative (additive) or argumentative (pragmatic causal). To investigate how readers interpret examples and specifications, we conducted a crowdsourced discourse annotation study. The results show that these relations can indeed have two functions: they can be used to both illustrate / specify a situation and serve as an argument for a claim. These findings suggest that examples and specifications can have multiple simultaneous readings. We discuss the implications of these results for discourse annotation. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.5087/dad.2017.203 |
Link to this record: | hdl:20.500.11880/29738 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-30990 |
ISSN: | 2152-9620 |
Date of registration: | 24-Sep-2020 |
Faculty: | MI - Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik |
Department: | MI - Informatik |
Professorship: | MI - Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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