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This paper describes an experiment we conducted in order to test the reliability of two discourse segmentation models which have been widely used in computational linguistics. The main purpose of the test is to pick one of them for our future research, which aims to assess the role of prosody in structuring discourse in European Portuguese. We compared the models of (1986) and (1997) using spontaneous speech. The latter displayed a higher level of consensus among coders. We also observed that listening to the original speech influenced the level of agreement among coders.
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Arim, E., Costa, F., Freitas, T. (2003). A Study on the Reliability of Two Discourse Segmentation Models. In: Mamede, N.J., Trancoso, I., Baptista, J., das Graças Volpe Nunes, M. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2721. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45011-4_11
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