Automatic recognition of English discourse functions based on meta-function theory and BERT semantic representation

Key Points

• This research aims to develop methods for automatically recognizing English discourse functions using meta-function theory and BERT semantic representation.
• Utilized meta-function theory to identify discourse functions
• Employed BERT for semantic representation of English text
• Conducted data analysis to evaluate recognition effectiveness
• Demonstrated high accuracy in identifying discourse functions using BERT
• Effectively improved semantic understanding in language processing tasks