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EMNLP
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Supervised and Unsupervised Methods in Employing Discourse Relations for Improving Opinion Polarity Classification
This work investigates design choices in modeling a discourse scheme for improving opinion polarity classification. For this, two diverse global inference paradigms are used: a su...
Swapna Somasundaran, Galileo Namata, Janyce Wiebe,...
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
The Production of Code-Mixed Discourse
We propose a comprehensive theory of codemixed discourse, encompassing equivalencepoint and insertional code-switching, palindromic constructions and lexical borrowing. The starti...
David Sankoff
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Relating initial turns of human-robot dialogues to discourse
User models can be useful for improving dialogue management. In this paper we analyze human-robot dialogues that occur during uncontrolled interactions and estimate relations betw...
Maxim Makatchev, Min Kyung Lee, Reid G. Simmons
ACL
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Priority Union and Generalization in Discourse Grammars
We describe an implementation in Carpenter's typed feature formalism, ALE, of a discourse grammar of the kind proposed by Scha, Polanyi, et al. We examine their method for re...
Claire Grover, Chris Brew, Suresh Manandhar, Marc ...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality
We combine lexical, syntactic, and discourse features to produce a highly predictive model of human readers' judgments of text readability. This is the first study to take in...
Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova