Lexical Opposition in Discourse Contrast

We investigate the connection between lexical opposition and discourse relations, with a focus on the relation of contrast, in order to evaluate whether opposition participates in discourse relations. Through a corpus-based analysis of Italian documents, we show that the relation between opposition and contrast is not crucial, although not insignificant in the case of implicit relation. The correlation is even weaker when other discourse relations are taken into account.Studiamo la connessione tra l’opposizione lessicale e le relazioni del discorso, con attenzione alla relazione di contrasto, per verificare se l’opposizione partecipa alle relazioni del discorso. Attraverso un’analisi basata su un corpus di documenti in italiano, mostriamo che la relazione tra opposizione e contrasto non è cruciale, anche se non priva di importanza soprattutto per i casi di contrasto implicito. La correlazione sembra più debole se consideriamo le altre relazioni del discorso

Lexical Opposition in Discourse Contrast

We investigate the connection between lexical opposition and discourse relations, with a focus on the relation of contrast, in order to evaluate whether opposition participates in discourse relations. Through a corpus-based analysis of Italian documents, we show that the relation between opposition and contrast is not crucial, although not insignificant in the case of implicit relation. The correlation is even weaker when other discourse relations are taken into account.Studiamo la connessione tra l’opposizione lessicale e le relazioni del discorso, con attenzione alla relazione di contrasto, per verificare se l’opposizione partecipa alle relazioni del discorso. Attraverso un’analisi basata su un corpus di documenti in italiano, mostriamo che la relazione tra opposizione e contrasto non è cruciale, anche se non priva di importanza soprattutto per i casi di contrasto implicito. La correlazione sembra più debole se consideriamo le altre relazioni del discorso

Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2018

On behalf of the Program Committee, a very warm welcome to the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-­‐it 2018). This edition of the conference is held in Torino. The conference is locally organised by the University of Torino and hosted into its prestigious main lecture hall “Cavallerizza Reale”. The CLiC-­‐it conference series is an initiative of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC) which, after five years of activity, has clearly established itself as the premier national forum for research and development in the fields of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, where leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry meet to share their research results, experiences, and challenges

Lexical Opposition in Discourse Contrast

We investigate the connection between lexical opposition and discourse relations, with a focus on the relation of contrast, in order to evaluate whether opposition participates in discourse relations.1 Through a corpus-based analysis of Italian documents, we show that the relation between opposition and contrast is not crucial, although not insignificant in the case of implicit relation. The correlation is even weaker when other discourse relations are taken into account