The understanding of language mechanisms needs to take into account very precisely the interaction between all the different domains or modalities, which implies the constitution and the development of resources. We describe here the CID (Corpus of Interactional Data), an audio-video corpus in French recorded and processed at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL). The corpus has been annotate...

Most research that observed online discussions compared them to either written (e.g., Hewing& Coffin, 2007) or oral discourse Joiner et al., 2008), never compiling the three modalities, and they did not provide comprehensive results regarding both form Interaction. Academic essays debates have been widely consumed in EAP classroom. However, effectiveness of synchronous forums EFL academic c...

• Temporal discourse markers such as after, before or while are commonly described as triggers for discourse relations expressing a temporal relation (Mann and Thompson, 1987; Knott, 1996). However, only little research has been done regarding the interaction of such discourse markers with the context within a multi-sentence discourse. Lascarides & Oberlander (1993), for instance, note that sen...

Discourse relations between two text segments play an important role in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The connectives strongly indicate the sense of discourse relations, while in fact, there are no connectives in a large proportion of discourse relations, i.e., implicit discourse relations. The key for implicit relation prediction is to correctly model the semantics of the two d...

Segmented Discourse Representation Theory or SDRT (Asher & Lascarides, 2003) has gained much attention in recent years as one of the most formally precise and linguistically grounded accounts of discourse and dialogue interpretation. Using underspecified dynamic semantics along with a special logic for extracting information, SDRT builds a structured representation of a discourse, governed by R...

The Arabic discourse-pragmatic feature ya3ni occurs frequently in natural interactional settings. Several studies have reported that (lit. ‘I mean/it means’) has developed a wide range of functions many spoken varieties such as Egyptian (Elshimi, 1992; 1993; Marmorstein, 2016, 2021a), Gulf (Owens & Rockwood, 2008), Libyan (Gaddafi, 1990), and Syrian (Alkhalil, 2005; Habib, 2021). Although t...

This paper presents a quantitative approach to multimodal discourse analysis for analyzing online collaborative learning. The coding framework draws together the fields of systemic functional linguistics and Activity Theory to analyze interactions between collaborative-, contentand technology-related discourse. The approach is used to examine how the task subject matter, the activity design, an...