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Pragmatic markers (PMs) are discourse units (words and multiword expressions) with a weakened referential meaning, which perform a variety of pragmatic tasks. For example, in English the common PMs are “well”, “you know”, “I think”, and many others. PMs are integral elements of spoken discourse in every language. According to the results obtained from the ORD corpus of everyday Russian, their share can reach up to 6% of the total number of words in speech of individual speakers. More than that, in some speech fragments, PMs may even exceed the share of significant units (i.e., standard words). However, despite their frequency and usualness, PMs are still poorly understood. Current NLP and discourse modeling systems lack information on PMs distribution and usage, this fact leads to noticeable shortcomings in work of these systems when they face spontaneous speech of everyday spoken discourse. In this paper we present top frequency lists of PMs for Russian dialogue and monologue spoken speech in general, and also for separate sociological groups of informants (by gender and by age). Our current list of PMs for Russian contains 450 units which are the variants of 50 main structural types. Besides, we consider the most frequent functions of PMs in spoken Russian. The presented quantitative data may be used for improvement of NPL and discourse modeling systems.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Speech and Computer - 21st International Conference, SPECOM 2019, Proceedings |
Editors | Albert Ali Salah, Alexey Karpov, Rodmonga Potapova |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 433-443 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Volume | 11658 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030260613 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030260606 |
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State | Published - 15 Aug 2019 |
Event | 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPEECH AND COMPUTER - ISTANBUL, TURKEY, ISTANBUL, Turkey Duration: 20 Aug 2019 → 25 Aug 2019 Conference number: 21 http://specom.nw.ru/ |
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 11658 LNAI |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference | 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPEECH AND COMPUTER |
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Abbreviated title | Specom 2019 |
Country/Territory | Turkey |
City | ISTANBUL |
Period | 20/08/19 → 25/08/19 |
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