Creating an Annotated Tamil Corpus as a Discourse Resource
Ravi Teja Rachakonda, Dipti Misra Sharma · 2011
We describe our efforts to apply the Penn Discourse Treebank guidelines on a Tamil corpus to create an annotated corpus of discourse relations in Tamil. After conducting a preliminary exploratory study on Tamil discourse connectives, we show our observations and results of a pilot experiment that we conducted by annotating a small portion of our corpus. Our ultimate goal is to develop a Tamil Discourse Relation Bank that will be useful as a resource for further research in Tamil discourse. Furthermore, a study of the behavior of discourse connectives in Tamil will also help in furthering the cross-linguistic understanding of discourse connectives. 1