Anaphoricity in Connectives: A Case Study on German

Stede, Manfred; Grishina, Yulia

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“…KH14 generalized their method to be able to create training data for any given shell noun, however, their method heavily exploits the specific properties of shell nouns and does not apply to other types of abstract anaphora. Stede and Grishina (2016) study a related phenomenon for German. They examine inherently anaphoric connectives (such as demzufolge -according to which) that could be used to access their abstract antecedent in the immediate context.…”

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A Mention-Ranking Model for Abstract Anaphora Resolution

Marasović

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Opitz

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Resolving abstract anaphora is an important, but difficult task for text understanding. Yet, with recent advances in representation learning this task becomes a more tangible aim. A central property of abstract anaphora is that it establishes a relation between the anaphor embedded in the anaphoric sentence and its (typically non-nominal) antecedent. We propose a mention-ranking model that learns how abstract anaphors relate to their antecedents with an LSTM-Siamese Net. We overcome the lack of training data by generating artificial anaphoric sentenceantecedent pairs. Our model outperforms state-of-the-art results on shell noun resolution. We also report first benchmark results on an abstract anaphora subset of the ARRAU corpus. This corpus presents a greater challenge due to a mixture of nominal and pronominal anaphors and a greater range of confounders. We found model variants that outperform the baselines for nominal anaphors, without training on individual anaphor data, but still lag behind for pronominal anaphors. Our model selects syntactically plausible candidates and -if disregarding syntax -discriminates candidates using deeper features.

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“…In contrast to other work, our method for generating training data is not confined to specific types of anaphora such as shell nouns (Kolhatkar and Hirst, 2014) or anaphoric connectives (Stede and Grishina, 2016). It produces large amounts of instances and is easily adaptable to other languages.…”

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A Mention-Ranking Model for Abstract Anaphora Resolution

Marasović

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Opitz

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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“…And/or, this phenomenon might be inherent to language. In a similar manner in which anaphora in the language occurs much more often than cataphora, the connectives (some of which are indeed anaphoric, compare Webber et al (2003), Stede and Grishina (2016) or Poláková and Mírovský (2019)), relate to small or larger previous semantic contents. 28 From a cognitive perspective, this disproportion of argument sizes may be connected with the linear way of text production and also the gradual growth of information received by the reader, and the perspective of the annotator, who may proceed incrementally, like a reader, not knowing about the sizes of any right context.…”

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Discourse Relations and Connectives in Higher Text Structure

Poláková¹,

Mírovský²,

Zikánová³

et al. 2021

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The present article investigates possibilities and limits of local (shallow) analysis of discourse coherence with respect to the phenomena of global coherence and higher composition of texts. We study corpora annotated with local discourse relations in Czech and partly in English to try and find clues in the local annotation indicating a higher discourse structure. First, we classify patterns of subsequent or overlapping pairs of local relations, and hierarchies formed by nested local relations. Special attention is then given to relations crossing paragraph boundaries and their semantic types, and to paragraph-initial discourse connectives. In the third part, we examine situations in which annotators incline to marking a large argument (larger than one sentence) of a discourse relation even with a minimality principle annotation rule in place. Our analyses bring (i) new linguistic insights regarding coherence signals in local and higher contexts, e.g. detection and description of hierarchies of local discourse relations up to 5 levels in Czech and English, description of distribution differences in semantic types in cross-paragraph and other settings, identification of Czech connectives only typical for higher structures, or the detection of prevalence of large left-sided arguments in locally annotated data; (ii) as another type of contribution, some new reflections on methodologies of the approaches under scrutiny.

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“…Division of connectives into structural (taking arguments qua the syntactic configuration) and anaphoric (mostly adverbials) is given in [24], based on the English material. Anaphoric connectives in German are studied in [20]. For Czech, the first studies of anaphoric connectives consisting of a preposition and a demonstrative pronoun are given in [9] and in [14].…”

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The Correlation Between Discourse-Anaphoric Devices and an Overall Communicative Competence in Learners’ Essays

Rysová¹,

Rysová²

2018

EDULEARN Proceedings

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In the present paper, we introduce a contrastive study on text coherence in Czech and German. Specifically, we focus on the discourse-anaphoric devices (called anaphoric connectives) contributing to text coherence and we analyze their role in the overall communicative competence of both native and non-native speakers of Czech and German. In our analysis, we firstly examine anaphoric connectives in Czech and we present their frequencies in three corpora -SYN6 and PDiT 2.0 (for texts by native speakers), and MERLIN (for texts by non-native speakers). Then we take a closer look at anaphoric connectives in texts by non-native speakers (learners) of Czech. Specifically, we examine whether the students who actively use such expressions in their writings also have better communicative competence as a whole (i.e. they reach better overall grade). Subsequently, we focus on the ways anaphoric connectives in Czech are translated into German (using the corpus InterCorp) and we provide an analysis of these German counterparts. In the next step, we carry out the same type of analysis for anaphoric connectives in German (with the PCC and the DWDS corpora for native speakers and the MERLIN corpus for non-native speakers). We analyze the results for Czech and German separately, and finally, we carry out a comparative study of these two languages with a focus on the use of our findings in the teaching process and possibly in (automated) translation.Keywords: Communicative competence, discourse, anaphora, anaphoric connectives, discourse connectives, Czech as a foreign language, German as a foreign language.German: Ihre weißen Planken haben wir mit eigenen Händen gezimmert, und die weißen Segel haben unsere Frauen und Töchter gewoben. Darum geben wir sie nicht her, und sie sind uns nicht feil, für keinen Bund und keine Freundschaft.Czech: Bílé kameny jsme opracovávali vlastníma rukama a bílé plachty tkaly naše manželky a dcery. Proto je ani nedáme, ani neprodáme pro žádné spojenectví ani přátelství.All three expressions in bold are originally combinations of a preposition (for(e) in English, um in German and pro in Czech) and an anaphoric expression (there in English, da in German and to in Czech). Anaphoric connectives are special in the way that they combine two discourse phenomena. They connect two text units and signal a semantic relation between them (e.g. therefore expresses a relation of result), similarly as other "non-anaphoric" connectives (e.g. and, but, while or because). At

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Anaphoricity in Connectives: A Case Study on German

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

A Mention-Ranking Model for Abstract Anaphora Resolution

A Mention-Ranking Model for Abstract Anaphora Resolution

Discourse Relations and Connectives in Higher Text Structure

The Correlation Between Discourse-Anaphoric Devices and an Overall Communicative Competence in Learners’ Essays

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