and, but, whereas after, as soon as, before, ever since, now, now that, once, until, when, whenever although, because, even though, for, given that, if, if ever, in case, on condition that, on the assumption that, on the grounds that, provided that, providing that, so, so that, supposing that, though, unless Table 3: Discourse markers used in the type experiment The data for the experiments comes from a database of sentences collected automatically from the British National Corpus and the world wide web (Hutchinson, 2004).
the first, 1 Nearest Neighbour (1NN), is an instance based classifier which assigns each marker to the same class as that of the marker nearest to it.