Towards a multilingual dictionary of discourse markers. Automatic extraction of units from parallel corpus

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Page 262-272
Author Irene Renau, Rogelio Nazar
Title Towards a multilingual dictionary of discourse markers. Automatic extraction of units from parallel corpus
Abstract This paper presents a multilingual dictionary project of discourse markers. During its first stage, consisting of collecting the list of headwords, we used a parallel corpus to automatically extract units from texts written in Spanish, Catalan, English, French and German. We also applied a method to create a taxonomy structure for automatically organising the markers in clusters. As a result, we obtain an extensive, corpus-­driven list of headwords. We present a prototype of the microstructure of the dictionary in the form of a standard XML database and describe the procedure to automatically fill in most of its fields (e. g., the type of DM, the equivalents in other languages, etc.), before human intervention.
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Keywords Computational lexicography, corpus­driven lexicography, discourse markers, multilingual lexicography
BibTex 
@inproceedings{euralex_mannheim_towards_2022,
address = {Mannheim},
title = {Towards a {Multilingual} {Dictionary} of {Discourse} {Markers}. {Automatic} {Extraction} of {Units} from {Parallel} {Corpus}},
isbn = {978-3-937241-87-6},
shorttitle = {Euralex (2022)},
url = {},
language = {eng},
booktitle = {Dictionaries and {Society}.  {Proceedings} of the {XX} {EURALEX} {International} {Congress}},
publisher = {IDS-Verlag},
author = {Renau, Irene and Nazar, Rogelio},
editor = {Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette and Engelberg, Stefan and Möhrs, Christine and Storjohann, Petra},
year = {2022},
pages = {262--272},
}
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