... noise.Manual analysis of a sample of 500 sentences re-vealed about 12% of sentences do not contain the discourse marker they are supposed to. Of the discourse markers used in the experiments,their frequencies ... 1993). On the other hand, several of the dis-course markers we count as TEMPORAL, such as assoon as, might be described as CAUSAL (Oberlan-der and Knott, 1995). One of the results of the ex-periments ... 1996). In this the other hand, a NEG-POL discourse marker likebut always co-occurs with a negative polarity dis-course relation. The gold standard classes of POS-POL and NEG-POL discourse markers...