Abstract Natural language does not express all connectives definable in classical logic as simple lexical items. Coordination English is expressed by conjunction and , disjunction or negated nor . Other languages pattern similarly. Non-lexicalized are typically compositionally: English, combining negation ( both ). This surprising: if $$\wedge $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math...

This article shows how the automatic disambiguation of discourse connectives can improve Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) from English to French. Connectives are firstly disambiguated in terms of the discourse relation they signal between segments. Several classifiers trained using syntactic and semantic features reach stateof-the-art performance, with F1 scores of 0.6 to 0.8 over thirteen...

We present an implemented procedure to select an appropriate connective to link two propositions, which is part of a large text generation system. Each connective is defined as a set of constraints between features of flxe propositions it connects. Ore' focus has been to identify pragmatic features flint can be produced by a deep generator to provide a simple representation of connectives. Usin...