@inproceedings{kubota-etal-2024-annotation,
    title = "Annotation of {J}apanese Discourse Relations Focusing on Concessive Inferences",
    author = "Kubota, Ai  and
      Sato, Takuma  and
      Amamoto, Takayuki  and
      Akiyoshi, Ryota  and
      Mineshima, Koji",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Kan, Min-Yen  and
      Hoste, Veronique  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Xue, Nianwen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.109",
    pages = "1215--1224",
    abstract = "In this study, we focus on the inference presupposed in the concessive discourse relation and present the discourse relation annotation for the Japanese connectives {`}nagara{'} and {`}tsutsu{'}, both of which have two usages: Synchronous and Concession, just like English while. We also present the annotation for {`}tokorode{'}, which is ambiguous in three ways: Temporal, Location, and Concession. While corpora containing concessive discourse relations already exist, the distinctive feature of our study is that it aims to identify the concessive inferential relations by writing out the implicit presupposed inferences. In this paper, we report on the annotation methodology and its results, as well as the characteristics of concession that became apparent during annotation.",
}

In this study, we focus on the inference presupposed in the concessive discourse relation and present the discourse relation annotation for the Japanese connectives {`}nagara{'} and {`}tsutsu{'}, both of which have two usages: Synchronous and Concession, just like English while. We also present the annotation for {`}tokorode{'}, which is ambiguous in three ways: Temporal, Location, and Concession. While corpora containing concessive discourse relations already exist, the distinctive feature of our study is that it aims to identify the concessive inferential relations by writing out the implicit presupposed inferences. In this paper, we report on the annotation methodology and its results, as well as the characteristics of concession that became apparent during annotation.
Kubota, Ai Sato, Takuma Amamoto, Takayuki Akiyoshi, Ryota Mineshima, Koji
Annotation of Japanese Discourse Relations Focusing on Concessive Inferences