... andtranslation experiments for a specific subset of dis-course connectives. Based on examinations in mul-tilingual corpora, we identified the connectives al-though, but, however, meanwhile, since, ... oftemporal–contrastive connectives. The impact ofconnective disambiguation on SMT is briefly pre-sented in Section 5. Section 6 concludes the paperwith an outline of future work.2 Translating Connectives Discourse ... discourse connectives exists since the 1990s,namely DiMLex for lexicon of discourse markers(Stede and Umbach, 1998). An equivalent, more re-cent database for French is LexConn for lexicon ofconnectives...