NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Two of the mechanisms for creating natural transitions between adjacent sentences in a text, resulting in local coherence, involve discourse relations and switches of focus of att...
COLING
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
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 ...
ANLP
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
In natural language generation, different generation tasks often interact with each other in a complex way, which is hard to capture in the pipeline architecture described by Reit...
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
The centering framework explains local coherence by relating local focus and the form of referring expressions. It has proven useful in monolog, but its utility for multiparty dis...
PRICAI
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
It is possible to define conversation policies, such as communication or dialogue protocols, that are based strictly on what messages and, respectively, what performatives may foll...