Towards a Multidimensional Semantics of Discourse Markers in Spoken Dialogue

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 157-168

  Petukhova, Volha ^a   Bunt, Harry ^a  

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Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; DISCOURSE MARKERS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS; MULTIPLE FUNCTION; SEMANTIC FUNCTIONS; SEMANTIC UNITS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; SURFACE FEATURE;

SEMANTICS;

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