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EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
15 years 1 months ago
Learning to Identify Fragmented Words in Spoken Discourse
Disfluent speech adds to the difficulty of processing spoken language utterances. In this paper we concentrate on identifying one disfluency phenomenon: fragmented words. Our d...
Piroska Lendvai
ACL
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Automatically Evaluating Text Coherence Using Discourse Relations
We present a novel model to represent and assess the discourse coherence of text. Our model assumes that coherent text implicitly favors certain types of discourse relation transi...
Ziheng Lin, Hwee Tou Ng, Min-Yen Kan
NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Creating Local Coherence: An Empirical Assessment
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...
Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova
COLING
2008
15 years 4 days ago
Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-Based Approach
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 ...
Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata
LREC
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
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...