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COLING
2000
13 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Investigation of the Relation Between Discourse Structure and Co-Reference
We compare the potential of two classes of linear and hierarchical models of discourse to determine co-reference links and resolve anaphors. The comparison uses a corpus of thirty...
Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, Daniel Marcu, Valentin Tab...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A unified account of the semantics of discourse particles
The paper investigates discourse particles on the example of German doch, assigning to them very specific semantic interpretations that still cover a wide range of their uses. The...
Markus Egg
INTETAIN
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Getting the Story Right: Making Computer-Generated Stories More Entertaining
Abstract. In this paper we describe our efforts to increase the entertainment value of the stories generated by our story generation system, the Virtual Storyteller, at the levels...
Katri Oinonen, Mariët Theune, Anton Nijholt, ...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Assessing the Role of Discourse References in Entailment Inference
Discourse references, notably coreference and bridging, play an important role in many text understanding applications, but their impact on textual entailment is yet to be systema...
Shachar Mirkin, Ido Dagan, Sebastian Padó