INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
The prosody of a sentence (utterance) when it appears in a discourse context differs substantially from when it is uttered in isolation. This paper addresses why paragraph is a di...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
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 ...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Texts are commonly interpreted based on the entire discourse in which they are situated. Discourse processing has been shown useful for inference-based application; yet, most syst...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Coreference systems are driven by syntactic, semantic, and discourse constraints. We present a simple approach which completely modularizes these three aspects. In contrast to muc...
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
In this paper we present an alternative interpretation of statements of epistemic possibility, which does not induce a consistency test on a common ground, as in (Veltman 1996), bu...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Discourse connectives are words or phrases such as once, since, and on the contrary that explicitly signal the presence of a discourse relation. There are two types of ambiguity t...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
We present a syntactic and lexically based discourse segmenter (SLSeg) that is designed to avoid the common problem of over-segmenting text. Segmentation is the first step in a di...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Articles in the Penn TreeBank were identified as being reviews, summaries, letters to the editor, news reportage, corrections, wit and short verse, or quarterly profit reports. Al...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present analyses aimed at eliciting which specific aspects of discourse provide the strongest indication for text importance. In the context of content selection for single doc...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
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...