CONF Meyer_ACL-HLT_2011/IDIAP Disambiguating Temporal-Contrastive Discourse Connectives for Machine Translation Meyer, Thomas disambiguation discourse connectives Statistical Machine Translation translation EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2011/Meyer_ACL-HLT_2011.pdf PUBLIC Association for Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of ACL-HLT 2011 Student Session Portland, OR 2011 46--51 Temporal–contrastive discourse connectives (although, while, since, etc.) signal various types of relations between clauses such as temporal, contrast, concession and cause. They are often ambiguous and therefore difficult to translate from one language to another. We discuss several new and translation-oriented experiments for the disambiguation of a specific subset of discourse connectives in order to correct some of the translation errors made by current statistical machine translation systems.