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LREC
2010
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Learning Recursive Segments for Discourse Parsing
Automatically detecting discourse segments is an important preliminary step towards full discourse parsing. Previous research on discourse segmentation have relied on the assumpti...
Stergos D. Afantenos, Pascal Denis, Philippe Mulle...
LREC
2010
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PDTB XML: the XMLization of the Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0
The current study presents a conversion and unification of the Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0 under the XML format. The converted corpus allows for a simultaneous search for syntacti...
Xuchen Yao, Irina V. Borisova, Mehwish Alam
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient Processing of Underspecified Discourse Representations
Underspecification-based algorithms for processing partially disambiguated discourse structure must cope with extremely high numbers of readings. Based on previous work on dominan...
Michaela Regneri, Markus Egg, Alexander Koller
CICLING
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Sense Annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank
Abstract. An important aspect of discourse understanding and generation involves the recognition and processing of discourse relations. These are conveyed by discourse connectives,...
Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee, Aravind...
FINTAL
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Discourse Segmentation of German Written Texts
Abstract. Discourse segmentation is the division of a text into minimal discourse segments, which form the leaves in the trees that are used to represent discourse structures. A de...
Harald Lüngen, Csilla Puskás, Maja B&a...
AUSAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Improving the Presentation of Argument Interpretations Based on User Trials
Abstract. The interpretation of complex discourse, such as arguments, is a difficult task that often requires validation, i.e., a system may need to present its interpretation of ...
Ingrid Zukerman, Michael Niemann, Sarah George
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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Using Content and Process Scaffolds to Support Collaborative Discourse in Asynchronous Learning Networks
Discourse, a form of collaborative learning [44], is one of the most widely used methods of teaching and learning in the online environment. Particularly in large courses, discour...
I. Wong-Bushby, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Michael Biebe...
ELPUB
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Text Parsing of a Complex Genre
A text parsing component designed to be part of a system that assists students in academic reading an writing is presented. The parser can automatically add a relational discourse...
Harald Lüngen, Maja Bärenfänger, Mi...
CICLING
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Sequential Model for Discourse Segmentation
Identifying discourse relations in a text is essential for various tasks in Natural Language Processing, such as automatic text summarization, question-answering, and dialogue gene...
Hugo Hernault, Danushka Bollegala, Mitsuru Ishizuk...