This paper presents a study on the role of discourse markers in argumentative discourse. We annotated a German corpus with arguments according to the common claim-premise model of argumentation and performed various statistical analyses regarding the discriminative nature of discourse markers for claims and premises. Our experiments show that particular semantic groups of discourse markers are indicative of either claims or premises and constitute highly predictive features for discriminating between them.
The role of discourse markers in the identification of claims and premises was discussed by REF , who found such markers to be moderately useful for identifying argumentative sentences.
On the Role of Discourse Markers for Discriminating Claims and Premises in Argumentative Discourse
EMNLP
Computer Science