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EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Supervised and Unsupervised Methods in Employing Discourse Relations for Improving Opinion Polarity Classification
This work investigates design choices in modeling a discourse scheme for improving opinion polarity classification. For this, two diverse global inference paradigms are used: a su...
Swapna Somasundaran, Galileo Namata, Janyce Wiebe,...
ACL
1998
14 years 11 months ago
The Production of Code-Mixed Discourse
We propose a comprehensive theory of codemixed discourse, encompassing equivalencepoint and insertional code-switching, palindromic constructions and lexical borrowing. The starti...
David Sankoff
HRI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Relating initial turns of human-robot dialogues to discourse
User models can be useful for improving dialogue management. In this paper we analyze human-robot dialogues that occur during uncontrolled interactions and estimate relations betw...
Maxim Makatchev, Min Kyung Lee, Reid G. Simmons
ACL
1994
14 years 11 months ago
Priority Union and Generalization in Discourse Grammars
We describe an implementation in Carpenter's typed feature formalism, ALE, of a discourse grammar of the kind proposed by Scha, Polanyi, et al. We examine their method for re...
Claire Grover, Chris Brew, Suresh Manandhar, Marc ...
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EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality
We combine lexical, syntactic, and discourse features to produce a highly predictive model of human readers' judgments of text readability. This is the first study to take in...
Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova