Automatic Disambiguation ofFrench Discourse Connectives
Table 6: Information Gain of Each Feature in the Disambiguation of Discourse Connectives
['[EMPTY]', '[BOLD] Feature', '[BOLD] French', '[BOLD] English']
To evaluate the contribution of each feature, we ranked the features by their information gain for both languages. For example, the Selfcat feature has a significantly lower information gain than the Conn feature for the disambiguation of French discourse connectives while this is not the case for English discourse connectives. This seems to indicate that the English discourse connectives tend to appear in more restricted syntactic contexts than French discourse connectives.