Multiple Discourse Marker Occurrence: Creating Hierarchies for Natural Language Generation

Most studies on discourse markers implicitly assume that only one marker or discourse relation will occur in a sentence. In reality, more than one relation may hold between text spans and may be cued by multiple discourse markers. We describe here a method for hierarchically organising discourse markers. The hierarchies are intended for use by a generation system to enable the selection and placement of more than one marker in a single text span.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ANLP
• Authors: Sarah Louise Oates
• Keywords: ANLP 2000, Discourse Markers, Discourse Relation, Multiple Discourse Markers