DiZer: An Automatic Discourse Analyzer for Brazilian Portuguese

This paper presents DiZer, an automatic DIscourse analyZER for Brazilian Portuguese. Given a source text, the system automatically produces its corresponding rhetorical analysis, following Rhetorical Structure Theory – RST [1]. A rhetorical repository, which is DiZer main component, makes the automatic analysis possible. This repository, produced by means of a corpus analysis, includes discourse analysis patterns that focus on knowledge about discourse markers, indicative phrases and words usages. When applicable, potential rhetorical relations are indicated. A preliminary evaluation of the system is also presented.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SBIA
• Authors: Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Lucia Helena Machado Rino
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Corresponding Rhetorical Analysis, Rhetorical, Rhetorical Structure Theory, SBIA 2004