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title: "MDL-based Acquisition of Substitutability Relationships between Discourse Connectives"
authors:
  - "Ben Hutchinson"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/244"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/0244.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2005
pages: "1690-1690"
track: ""
keywords:
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# MDL-based Acquisition of Substitutability Relationships between Discourse Connectives

Ben Hutchinson

*Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1690-1690.

## Abstract

Knowledge of which lexical items convey the same meaning in a given context is important for many Natural Language Processing tasks. This paper concerns the substitutability of discourse connectives in particular. This paper proposes a datadriven method based on a Minimum Description Length (MDL) criterion for automatically learning substitutability of connectives. The method is shown to outperform two baseline classifiers.