Determining the semantic role of sentence constituents is a key task in determining sentence meanings lying behind a veneer of variant syntactic expression. We present a model of n...
Cynthia A. Thompson, Roger Levy, Christopher D. Ma...
Integration of new utterances into context is a central task in any model for rational (human-machine) dialogues in natural language. In this paper, a pragmatics-first approach to...
Title generation is a complex task involving both natural language understanding and natural language synthesis. In this paper, we propose a new probabilistic model for title gene...
Word sense disambiguation is the task to identify the intended meaning of an ambiguous word in a certain context, one of the central problems in natural language processing. This p...
We present a discourse-level Tree Adjoining Grammar which tightly integrates syntax and discourse levels, including a representation for discourse entities. We show that this tech...