This paper offers two main contributions. On the one hand, it establishes a general formal framework for developing a foundational ontology of socially constructed entities, in th...
The phenomenon of coreference, covering entities, their mentions and their properties, is intricately linked to the phenomenon of coherence, covering the structure of rhetorical r...
This paper presents a probabilistic model for Japanese zero anaphora resolution. First, this model recognizes discourse entities and links all mentions to them. Zero pronouns are ...
Some discourse structures such as enumerative structures have typographical, punctuational and laying out characteristics which (1) make them easily identifiable and (2) convey hi...
We investigate the novel problem of event recognition from news webpages. "Events" are basic text units containing news elements. We observe that a news article is always...