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This paper reports on efforts to automatically identify and classify discourse markers in Chinese texts using heuristic-based and corpus-based data-mining methods, as an integral part of automatic text summarization via rhetorical structure and Discourse Markers. Encouraging results are reported.", + "pdf_parse": { + "paper_id": "W00-0402", + "_pdf_hash": "", + "abstract": [ + { + "text": "Discourse markers foreshadow the message thrust of texts and saliently guide their rhetorical structure which are important for content filtering and text abstraction. This paper reports on efforts to automatically identify and classify discourse markers in Chinese texts using heuristic-based and corpus-based data-mining methods, as an integral part of automatic text summarization via rhetorical structure and Discourse Markers. Encouraging results are reported.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Abstract", + "sec_num": null + } + ], + "body_text": [ + { + "text": "Discourse is understood to refer to any form of language-based communication involving multiple sentences or utterances. The most important forms of discourse of interest to computerized natural .language processing are text and dialogue. While discourse such as written text normally appears to \u2022 be a linear sequence of clauses and sentences, it has \"long been recognized by linguists that these clauses and sentences tend to cluster together into units, called discourse segments, that are related pragmatically to form a hierarchical structure.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Introduction", + "sec_num": "1" + }, + { + "text": "Discourse analysis goes beyond the levels of syntactic and semantic analysis, which typically treats each sentence as an isolated, independent unit. The function of discourse analysis is to divide a text into discourse segments, and to recognize and re-construct the discourse structure of the text as intended by its author. Results of discourse analysis can be used to solve many important NLP problems such as anaphoric reference (Hirst 1981) , tense and aspect analysis (Hwang and Schubert 1992) , intention recognition (Grosz and Sidner 1986; Litman and Allen 1990) , or'can be directly applied to computational NLP applications such as text abstraction (Ono et al. 1994; T'sou et al. 1996) and text generation (McKeown 1985; Lin et al. 1991) .", + "cite_spans": [ + { + "start": 433, + "end": 445, + "text": "(Hirst 1981)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF7" + }, + { + "start": 474, + "end": 499, + "text": "(Hwang and Schubert 1992)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF9" + }, + { + "start": 524, + "end": 547, + "text": "(Grosz and Sidner 1986;", + "ref_id": "BIBREF2" + }, + { + "start": 548, + "end": 570, + "text": "Litman and Allen 1990)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF17" + }, + { + "start": 659, + "end": 676, + "text": "(Ono et al. 1994;", + "ref_id": "BIBREF26" + }, + { + "start": 677, + "end": 695, + "text": "T'sou et al. 1996)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF35" + }, + { + "start": 716, + "end": 730, + "text": "(McKeown 1985;", + "ref_id": "BIBREF23" + }, + { + "start": 731, + "end": 747, + "text": "Lin et al. 1991)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF16" + } + ], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Introduction", + "sec_num": "1" + }, + { + "text": "Automatic text abstraction has received considerable attention (see Paice (1990) for a comprehensive review). While some statistical approaches have had some success in extracting one or more sentences which can serve as a summary (Brandow et al. 1995; Kupiec et al. 1995; Salton et al. 1997) , summarization in general has remained an elusive task. McKeown and Radev (1995) develop a system SUMMONS to summarize full text input using templates produced by the message understanding systems, developed under ARPA human language technology. Unlike previous approaches, their system summarizes a series of news articles on the same event, producing a paragraph consisting of one or more sentences. Endres-Niggemeyer et al. (1995) uses a blackboard system architecture with co-operating object-oriented agents and a dynamic text representation which borrows its conceptual relations from Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) (Mann and Thompson 1986) . Furthermore, connectionist models of discourse summarization have also attracted a lot of attention (Aretoulaki et al. 1998) . The main underlying principles are the distributed encoding of concepts and the simulation of human association with a large amount of processing nodes. What is crucial in this approach is to provide a subconceptual layer in the linguistic reasoning.", + "cite_spans": [ + { + "start": 68, + "end": 80, + "text": "Paice (1990)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF27" + }, + { + "start": 231, + "end": 252, + "text": "(Brandow et al. 1995;", + "ref_id": null + }, + { + "start": 253, + "end": 272, + "text": "Kupiec et al. 1995;", + "ref_id": "BIBREF15" + }, + { + "start": 273, + "end": 292, + "text": "Salton et al. 1997)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF30" + }, + { + "start": 350, + "end": 374, + "text": "McKeown and Radev (1995)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF22" + }, + { + "start": 696, + "end": 727, + "text": "Endres-Niggemeyer et al. (1995)", + "ref_id": null + }, + { + "start": 919, + "end": 943, + "text": "(Mann and Thompson 1986)", + "ref_id": null + }, + { + "start": 1046, + "end": 1070, + "text": "(Aretoulaki et al. 1998)", + "ref_id": null + } + ], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Introduction", + "sec_num": "1" + }, + { + "text": "As in Paice (1990) , summarization techniques in text analysis are severely impaired by the absence of a generally accepted discourse model and the use of superstructural schemes is promising for abstracting text. Johnson et al. (1993) describes a text processing system that can identify anaphors so that they may be utilized to enhance sentence selection. It is based on the assumption that sentences which contain nonanaphoric noun phrases and introduce key concepts into the text are worthy of inclusion in an abstract. Ono et al. (1994 Ono et al. ( ), T'sou et al. (1992 and Marcu (1997) focus on discourse structure in summarization using the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). The theory has been exploited in a. number of computational systems (e.g. Hovy 1993) . The main idea is to build a discourse tree where each node of the tree represents a RST relation. Summarization is achieved by trimming unimportant sentences on the basis of the relative saliency or rhetorical relations. On the other hand, cohesion can also provide context to aid in the resolution of ambiguity as well as in text summarization (Halliday and Hasan 1976; Morris and Hirst 1991; Hearst 1997) . Mani et al. (1998) describes a method based on text coherence which models text in terms of macro-level relations between clauses or sentences to help determine the overall argumentative structure of the text. They examine the extent to which cohesion and coherence can each be used to establish saliency of textual units.", + "cite_spans": [ + { + "start": 6, + "end": 18, + "text": "Paice (1990)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF27" + }, + { + "start": 214, + "end": 235, + "text": "Johnson et al. (1993)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF10" + }, + { + "start": 524, + "end": 540, + "text": "Ono et al. (1994", + "ref_id": "BIBREF26" + }, + { + "start": 541, + "end": 575, + "text": "Ono et al. ( ), T'sou et al. 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In Section 4, we describe a coding scheme for tagging every discourse marker appearing in the SIFAS corpus. In Section 5, we introduce a heuristic-based algorithm for automatic tagging of discourse markers. In Section 6, we describe the application of the C4.5 algorithm to the same task. In Section 7, we present the evaluation results of applying the two algorithms to corpus tagging, followed by a conclusion.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Introduction", + "sec_num": "1" + }, + { + "text": "Among all kinds of information that may be found in a piece of discourse, discourse markers (also known as discourse connectives, clue words (Reichman 1978; Siegel et al. 1994) or cue phrases (Grosz et al. 1986; Litman 1996) are regarded as the major linguistic deviceavailable for a writer to structure a discourse. Discourse markers are expressions which signal a sequential relationship between the current basic message and the previous discourse. Schiffrin (1987) is concerned with elements which mark sequentially dependent units of discourse. She examines discourse markers in interview data, looking specifically at their distribution and their particular interpretation(s). She proposes that these markers typically serve three functions: (i) they index adjacent utterances to the speaker, the hearer, or both; (ii) they index adjacent utterances to prior and/or subsequent discourse; (iii) they work as contextual coordinates for utterances by locating them on one or more planes of her discourse model.", + "cite_spans": [ + { + "start": 141, + "end": 156, + "text": "(Reichman 1978;", + "ref_id": "BIBREF29" + }, + { + "start": 157, + "end": 176, + "text": "Siegel et al. 1994)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF32" + }, + { + "start": 192, + "end": 211, + "text": "(Grosz et al. 1986;", + "ref_id": "BIBREF2" + }, + { + "start": 212, + "end": 224, + "text": "Litman 1996)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF18" + }, + { + "start": 452, + "end": 468, + "text": "Schiffrin (1987)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF31" + } + ], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Chinese Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": "2" + }, + { + "text": "Discourse markers also figure prominently in Chinese which has a tendency to delay topic introduction (Kaplan 1996; Kirkpatrick 1993) . Hinds (1982) and Kong (1998) also maintain that the Chinese tendency of delayed topic introduction is heavily influenced by the qi cheng zhuan he canonical structure (a Chinese rhetorical pattern). In a study examining rhetorical structure in Chinese, Kirkpatrick (1993) found that several major patterns, favored and considered to be good style by native Chinese writers, are hinted at by Chinese discourse markers. Although the effect of discourse markers in other languages might not be too prominent, there is a great necessity to study discourse markers in Chinese in order to capture the major associated rhetorical patterns in Chinese texts. While the full semantic understanding in Chinese texts is obviously much more difficult to accomplish, the approach using text mining techniques in identifying discourse markers and associated rhetorical structures in a sizeable Chinese corpus will be certainly beneficial to any language processing, such as summarization and knowledge extraction in Chinese.", + "cite_spans": [ + { + "start": 102, + "end": 115, + "text": "(Kaplan 1996;", + "ref_id": "BIBREF11" + }, + { + "start": 116, + "end": 133, + "text": "Kirkpatrick 1993)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF12" + }, + { + "start": 136, + "end": 148, + "text": "Hinds (1982)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF5" + }, + { + "start": 153, + "end": 164, + "text": "Kong (1998)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF13" + }, + { + "start": 388, + "end": 406, + "text": "Kirkpatrick (1993)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF12" + } + ], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Chinese Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": "2" + }, + { + "text": "In Chinese, two distinct classes of discourse markers are useful for identification and interpretation of the discourse structure of a Chinese text: primary discourse markers and secondary discourse markers (T'sou et al. 1999) . Discourse markers can be either words or phrases. It may be noted that our analysis of Chinese has yielded about 150 discourse markers, and that on the average, argumentative text (e.g. editorials) in Chinese shows more than one third of the discourse segments to contain discourse markers. While primary discourse markers can be paired discontinuous constituents, with each marker attached to one of the two utterances or propositions, the socondary discourse markers tend to be unitary constituents only. In the case of primary discourse markers, it is quite common that one member of the pair is deleted, unless for emphasis. The deletion of both discourse markers ts also possible. The recovery process therefore faces considerable challenge even when concerned \u2022 with the deletion of only one member of the paired discourse markers. Since these discourse markers 'have no unique lexical realization, there is also the need for disambiguation in a homocode problem.", + "cite_spans": [ + { + "start": 207, + "end": 226, + "text": "(T'sou et al. 1999)", + "ref_id": null + } + ], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Chinese Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": "2" + }, + { + "text": "Moreover, primary discourse markers can also be classified as simple adverbials, as is the case in English:", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Chinese Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": "2" + }, + { + "text": "(I) Even though a child, John is so tall that he has problem getting half-fare.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Chinese Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": "2" + }, + { + "text": "(2) Even though a child, (because) John is tall, so he has problem getting half-fare.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Chinese Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": "2" + }, + { + "text": "In (1), so is usually classified as an adverb within a sentence, but in (2) so is recognized as marking a change in message thrust at the discourse level.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Chinese Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": "2" + }, + { + "text": "In the deeper linguistic analysis the two so's may be related, for they refer to a situation involving excessive height with implied consequence which may or may not be stated. In terms of the surface syntactic structure, so in (1) can occur in a simple (exclamatory) sentence (e.g. \"John is so tall!\"), but so in (2) must occur in the context of complex sentences. Our concern in this project is to identify so in the discourse sense as in (2) in contrast to so used as an adverb in the sentential sense as in (1). Similar difficulties are found in Chinese, as discussed in Section 7.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Chinese Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": "2" + }, + { + "text": "From the perspective of discourse analysis, the study of discourse markers basically involves four distinct but fundamental issues: 1) the occurrence and the frequency of occurrence of discourse markers (Moser and Moore 1995) , 2) determining whether a candidate linguistic item is a discourse marker (identification / disambiguation) (Hirschberg and Litman 1993; Siegel and McKeown 1994) , 3) determination or selection of the discourse function of an identified discourse marker (Moser and Moore 1995) , and 4) the coverage capabilities (in terms of levels of embedding) among rhetorical relations, as well as among individual discourse markers. Discussion of these problems for Chinese compound sentences can be found in Wang et al. (1994) .", + "cite_spans": [ + { + "start": 203, + "end": 225, + "text": "(Moser and Moore 1995)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF25" + }, + { + "start": 335, + "end": 363, + "text": "(Hirschberg and Litman 1993;", + "ref_id": "BIBREF6" + }, + { + "start": 364, + "end": 388, + "text": "Siegel and McKeown 1994)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF32" + }, + { + "start": 481, + "end": 503, + "text": "(Moser and Moore 1995)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF25" + }, + { + "start": 724, + "end": 742, + "text": "Wang et al. (1994)", + "ref_id": "BIBREF36" + } + ], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "SIFAS System Architecture", + "sec_num": "3" + }, + { + "text": "Previous attempts to address the above problems in Chinese text have usually been based on the investigators' intuition and knowledge, or on a small number of constructed examples. In our current research, we adopt heuristics-based corpus-based learning to discover the correlation between various linguistic features and different aspects of approaches, and use machine discourse marker usage. Our research framework where, the properties of every Candidate Discourse DMi: Marker (CDM). Texts in the test set are automatically tagged and proofread. Different algorithms, depending on the features being RRi: investigated, are derived to automatically extract the interesting features to form a feature database.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "SIFAS System Architecture", + "sec_num": "3" + }, + { + "text": "RPi: Machine learning algorithms are then applied to the feature database to generate linguistic rules (decision trees) reflecting the characteristics of various discourse markers and the relevant CT~: rhetorical relations. For every induced rule (or a combination of them), its performance is evaluated by tagging the discourse markers appearing in thtest set of the corpus.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "SIFAS System Architecture", + "sec_num": "3" + }, + { + "text": "MN~:", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "A Framework for Tagging", + "sec_num": "4" + }, + { + "text": "The following coding scheme is designed to encode all and only Real Discourse Markers RN~: (RDM) appearing in the SIFAS corpus. We describe the i th discourse marker with a 7-tuple RDMi, sequentially to the corresponding rhetorical relation RR; in the text. OTi: the Order Type of RR;. The value of OTi can be 1, -1 or 0, denoting respectively the normal order, reverse order or irrelevance of the premise-consequence ordering of RRI.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": null + }, + { + "text": "For Apparent Discourse Markers (ADM) that do not function as real discourse markers in a text, a different 3-tuple coding scheme is used to encode them:", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": null + }, + { + "text": "ADM~ = < LIi, *, SNi > where, LIi:", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": null + }, + { + "text": "the Lexical Item of the ADM. 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Labour unrest has spread quickly to all industrial sectors.'", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": null + }, + { + "text": "From the above tagging, we can immediately obtain the discourse structure that the two clauses encapsulated by the two discourse markers youyu (with sequence number 2) and NULL (with sequence number 0). They have formed a causality relation (with sequence number 2). We denote this as a binary relation Causality(FrontClause(2), BaekClause(2)) where FrontClause(n) denotes the discourse segment that is encapsulated by the Front discourse marker of the corresponding rhetorical relation whose sequence number is n.", + "cite_spans": [], + "ref_spans": [], + "eq_spans": [], + "section": "Discourse Markers", + "sec_num": null + }, + { + "text": "BackClause(n) can be defined similarly. Note that although yi is a CDM, it does not function as a discourse indicator in this sentence. 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