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dad-10768	Cartoni, Bruno ; Zufferey, Sandrine ; Meyer, Thomas 	Annotating the meaning of discourse connectives by looking at their translation: The translation-spotting technique	2013	22	.pdf	application/pdf	11728	570	53	In order to disambiguate discourse connectives for machine translation (and more specifically for statistical machine translation (SMT), the COMTIS project proposes to pre-process their occurrences and label them with meaning tags, thus enabling the SMT system to make the correct choice in the target language. Published online 04/13 Annotating the Meaning of Discourse Connectives by Looking at their Translation: The Translation Spotting Technique Bruno Cartoni BRUNO.CARTONI@UNIGE.CH Département de Linguistique Université de Genève Rue de Candolle 2 CH-1211 Genève 4 Sandrine Zufferey S.I.ZUFFEREY@UU.NL Utrecht Institute of Linguistics Trans 10 NL-3512 JK Utrecht Thomas Meyer THOMAS.MEYER@IDIAP.CH Idiap Research Institute Centre du Parc Rue Marconi 19 CH-1920 Martigny Editors: Stefanie Dipper, Heike Zinsmeister, Bonnie Webber Abstract The various meanings of discourse connectives like while and however are difficult to identify and annotate, even for trained human annotators.	cache/dad-10768.pdf	txt/dad-10768.txt