... of discourse connectivesBen HutchinsonSchool of InformaticsUniversity of EdinburghB.Hutchinson@sms.ed.ac.ukAbstractProcessing discourse connectives is im-portant for tasks such as discourse ... the use of discourse connectives, e.g. because, even though.For a machine to interpret a text, it is impor-tant that it recognises coherence relations, and so asexplicit markers discourse connectives ... When discourse con-nectives are not present, the task is more difficult.For such cases, unsupervised approaches have beendeveloped for predicting relations, by using sen-tences containing discourse...