Systems and Means of Informatics
2022, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp 114-125
DATABASE OF HIERARCHIES OF LOGICAL-SEMANTIC RELATIONS: ARCHITECTURE
- A. A. Durnovo
- O. Yu. Inkova
- N. A. Popkova
Abstract
The paper presents the architecture of a new linguistic resource: the Supracorpora database reflecting hierarchies of logical-semantic relations that ensure the text coherence. Annotations in the database are in the form of trees or, rather, arborescences, where vertices contain data while edges represent the subordination between vertices. Each tree vertex corresponds to either a context or a connector; the connectors in the text are marked. The authors describe the relationships between the database tables and trees as well as their properties.
The paper also demonstrates the differences between this new resource and the existing ones, in particular, the graphs of rhetorical relations created within the framework of the rhetorical structure theory: the ability to store data, to modify the annotated contexts, to work with empty contexts, and to reflect previous states of all the trees.
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[+] About this article
Title
DATABASE OF HIERARCHIES OF LOGICAL-SEMANTIC RELATIONS: ARCHITECTURE
Journal
Systems and Means of Informatics
Volume 32, Issue 1, pp 114-125
Cover Date
2022-05-10
DOI
10.14357/08696527220111
Print ISSN
0869-6527
Publisher
Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Key words
supracorpora database; corpus of texts' annotation; graph; discourse relations; connector
Authors
A. A. Durnovo  , O. Yu. Inkova ,  , and N. A. Popkova
Author Affiliations
Federal Research Center "Computer Science and Control", Russian Academy of Sciences, 44-2 Vavilov Str., Moscow 119333, Russian Federation
University of Geneva, 22 Bd des Philosophes, CH-1205 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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