The thorough study of discourse markers (DM), i. e. words and phrases bearing mainly discourse-pragmatic information (sentence adverbs, particles, interjections and the like) have started in seventies and continues at present. In semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis detailed descriptions of many of DMs based on different theories have been proposed. Special dictionaries of DMs were published with word-lists ranging from dozens to hundreds. Dictionaries of Russian DMs give information on their phonetic, grammatical, syntactic and pragmatic properties. However this information is insufficient for such purposes as learning/teaching Russian as a foreign language and for automated text or speech processing. Generally there is not enough phonetic (prosodic), syntactic and paralinguistic information needed for correct speech production (synthesis) and speech understanding (analysis). We argue that the most natural way to proceed is to make a computer multimedia dictionary that would supply information concerning every aspect of DM that has to be taken into account. We propose a format for such a dictionary and discuss relevant types of information, concentrating on those that are poorly presented in existing paper dictionaries.
Cite as: Kobozeva, I.M., Zakharov, L.M. (2004) Types of information for the multimedia dictionary of Russian discourse markers. Proc. 9th Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2004), 470-473
@inproceedings{kobozeva04_specom,
author={I. M. Kobozeva and L. M. Zakharov},
title={{Types of information for the multimedia dictionary of Russian discourse markers}},
year=2004,
booktitle={Proc. 9th Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2004)},
pages={470--473}
}