This paper examines the discourse fluictions that different types of subjects perform in Italian within the centering framework (Grosz el; al., 1995). I build on my previous work ...
Interpreting the outcome of a recent survey on Internet banking in Europe, [CARIGNANI et al., 2000], we point the attention to the adoption of Web technologies in Italian retail b...
spectives. A total of 149 abstracts were accepted and presented in the poster session and 31 of them were selected for oral presentation. At the opening of the meeting, Roderic Gui...
This paper considers the problem of automatic assessment of local coherence. We present a novel entity-based representation of discourse which is inspired by Centering Theory and ...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...