Signalling Elaboration: Combining Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cues

Clémentine Adam (1) , Marianne Vergez-Couret (1)

1 CLLE-ERSS - Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie

In this paper, we aim at automatically identifying Elaboration. This relation is particularly difficult to spot since it does not have prototypical markers. Our approach focuses on an ambiguous syntactic pattern, the gerund clause, combined with lexical cues. This approach allows us to detect few but accurate cases of inner sentence Elaborations in our corpus, validating the fact that lexical cues are relevant for this task.

Mots clés: Elaboration relation; lexical cohesion cues; distributional neighbourhood; SDRT; discourse structure; gerund clause

Mots clés: relation d'Élaboration; indices de cohésion lexicales; voisins distributionnels; structure du discours; gérondif

Domaines: Linguistique

Clémentine Adam, Marianne Vergez-Couret. Signalling Elaboration: Combining Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cues. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2010 - Signalling Text Organisation, Mar 2009, Moissac, France. ⟨hal-00635329⟩