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Autor/inn/en | Sanosi, Abdulaziz; Abdalla, Mohamed |
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Titel | Automated Identification of Discourse Markers Using the NLP Approach: The Case of "Okay" |
Quelle | In: Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 4 (2021) 3, S.119-131 (13 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 2209-0959 |
Schlagwörter | Natural Language Processing; Computational Linguistics; Programming Languages; Accuracy; Punctuation; Discourse Analysis; Identification; Evaluators; Comparative Analysis; Computer Software |
Abstract | This study aimed to examine the potentials of the NLP approach in detecting discourse markers (DMs), namely okay, in transcribed spoken data. One hundred thirty-eight concordance lines were presented to human referees to judge the functions of okay in them as a DM or Non-DM. After that, the researchers used a Python script written according to the POS tagging scheme of the NLTK library to set rules for identifying cases where okay is used as non-DM. The output of the script was compared to the reference human-annotated data. The results showed that the script could accurately identify the function of okay as DM or non-DM in 92% of the cases. The inaccuracy of detecting the rest was found to be caused by a lack of proper and detailed punctuations. The main implications of the results are that new NLP approaches can detect DMS; however, proper punctuation is required to enable the proper identification of DMs. In accordance with the findings, the researcher recommended adopting the approach after conducting further comprehensive studies. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |