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COLING
2000
13 years 10 months ago
An Empirical Investigation of the Relation Between Discourse Structure and Co-Reference
We compare the potential of two classes of linear and hierarchical models of discourse to determine co-reference links and resolve anaphors. The comparison uses a corpus of thirty...
Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, Daniel Marcu, Valentin Tab...
ACL
2012
11 years 11 months ago
Towards the Unsupervised Acquisition of Discourse Relations
This paper describes a novel approach towards the empirical approximation of discourse relations between different utterances in texts. Following the idea that every pair of event...
Christian Chiarcos
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Combining Labeled and Unlabeled Data for Learning Cross-Document Structural Relationships
Multi-document discourse analysis has emerged with the potential of improving various NLP applications. Based on the newly proposed Cross-document Structure Theory (CST), this pap...
Zhu Zhang, Dragomir R. Radev
DAARC
2007
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Empirically Assessing Effects of the Right Frontier Constraint
In a questionnaire study the effects of discourse structural information on resolving inter-sentential anaphora were investigated. The Right Frontier Constraint, first proposed by ...
Anke Holler, Lisa Irmen
ACL
1990
13 years 9 months ago
Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation
Conversation between two people is usually of MIXED-INITIATIVE, with CONTROL over the conversation being transferred from one person to another. We apply a set of rules for the tr...
Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker