Automatic Mapping of French Discourse Connectives to PDTB Discourse Relations
Table 1: Distribution of LEXCONN French DCs in the Europarl corpus.
['[BOLD] Freq.', '[BOLD] =0', '≤ [BOLD] 50', '[BOLD] >50', '[BOLD] Total']
To have statistically reliable results, we ignored French DCs that appeared less than 50 times in Europarl. Out of the 371 French DCs listed in LEXCONN, seven do not appear in Europarl and 55 have a frequency lower than 50. This means that 89% (309/371) of the French DCs have a frequency higher than 50 and were thus used in the analysis. A manual inspection of the infrequent DCs shows that they are either informal (e.g. des fois que) or rare expression (e.g. en dépit que).