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COLING
2000
13 years 5 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...
COLING
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Underspecified Modelling of Complex Discourse Constraints
We introduce a new type of discourse constraints for the interaction of discourse relations with the configuration of discourse segments. We examine corpus-extracted examples as s...
Markus Egg, Michaela Regneri
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Improvements in hidden Markov model based Arabic OCR
This paper describes recent advances in hidden Markov model (HMM) based OCR for machine-printed Arabic documents. A combination of scriptindependent and script-specific techniques...
Rohit Prasad, Shirin Saleem, Matin Kamali, Ralf Me...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
The Effects of Discourse Connectives Prediction on Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
Implicit discourse relation recognition is difficult due to the absence of explicit discourse connectives between arbitrary spans of text. In this paper, we use language models to...
Zhi Min Zhou, Man Lan, Zhengyu Niu, Yu Xu, Jian Su
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Predicting Discourse Connectives for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
Existing works indicate that the absence of explicit discourse connectives makes it difficult to recognize implicit discourse relations. In this paper we attempt to overcome this ...
Zhi-Min Zhou, Yu Xu, Zheng-Yu Niu, Man Lan, Jian S...