ISO-DR-core plugs into ISO-dialogue acts for a cross-linguistic taxonomy of discourse markers

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2023

Authors

Silvano, Maria da Purificação (Author) FLUP; Damova, Mariana (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Language, Data and Knowledge 2023 (LDK 2023): Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge

Pages: 440-447

4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge

Vienna, 2023

Other information

Abstract (EN): The present paper proposes an interoperable taxonomy to represent the meaning of discourse markers based on ISO DR-core (ISO 24617-8) but with a plug-in to ISO-dialogue acts (ISO 24617-2). The proposed taxonomy encompasses two dimensions: the semantic, with values regarding the discourse relations signalled by discourse markers, and the pragmatic, with values concerning the communicative function realized by discourse markers. We present a proof of concept for this twodimensional taxonomy in a multilingual parallel dataset in three languages, English, European Portuguese and Bulgarian, comprising 165 textual segments with multiword discourse makers obtained from publicly available TED Talk transcripts. We show that the two-dimensional taxonomy can successfully annotate cross-linguistically the meaning of discourse markers and discuss linguistic evidence where extension of the proposed taxonomy can be relevant.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific