This chapter reviews three influential perspectives in research on discourse markers:
Schiffrin's discourse perspective, Fraser's pragmatic approach, and Maschler's functional …

Argument mining is the automatic identification and extraction of the structure of inference
and reasoning expressed as arguments presented in natural language. Understanding …

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Discourse markers have been the subject of a considerable body of recent research. Most
commonly, their genesis and development was described in terms of grammaticalization …

There are few aspects of any language which reflect the culture of a given speech
community better than its particles. Particles are very often highly idiosyncratic:' …

We describe a statistical approach for modeling dialogue acts in conversational speech, ie,
speech-act-like units such as Statement, Question, Backchannel, Agreement, Disagreement …

TextTiling is a technique for subdividing texts into multi-paragraph units that represent
passages, or subtopics. The discourse cues for identifying major subtopic shifts are patterns …

We describe our experience in developing a discourse-annotated corpus for community-
wide use. Working in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory, we were able to create a …

This paper introduces a new statistical approach to automatically partitioning text into
coherent segments. The approach is based on a technique that incrementally builds an …

Cette étude propose une double rencontre. D'une part entre deux thèmes centraux dans le
cadre de recherches sur la langue: la grammaticalisation et les marqueurs discursifs et …