TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward automatic determination of the semantics of connectives in large newspaper corpora
AU - Bestgen, Y.
AU - Degand, L.
AU - Spooren, W.P.M.S.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We explored the possibility of using automatic techniques to analyze the use of backward causal connectives in large Dutch newspaper corpora. With the help of 2 techniques, Latent Semantic Analysis and Thematic Text Analysis, the contexts of more than 14,000 connectives were studied. The method of analysis is described. We found that differences that have been suggested in the literature via hand-based analyses between these types of connectives (e.g., on dimensions such as subjectivity, change in perspective, and factuality of the connected segments) also appear in our corpus of 16.5 million words. Copyright © 2006, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
AB - We explored the possibility of using automatic techniques to analyze the use of backward causal connectives in large Dutch newspaper corpora. With the help of 2 techniques, Latent Semantic Analysis and Thematic Text Analysis, the contexts of more than 14,000 connectives were studied. The method of analysis is described. We found that differences that have been suggested in the literature via hand-based analyses between these types of connectives (e.g., on dimensions such as subjectivity, change in perspective, and factuality of the connected segments) also appear in our corpus of 16.5 million words. Copyright © 2006, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
U2 - 10.1207/s15326950dp4102_4
DO - 10.1207/s15326950dp4102_4
M3 - Article
SN - 0163-853X
VL - 41
SP - 175
EP - 194
JO - Discourse Processes
JF - Discourse Processes
IS - 2
ER -