Certain spans of utterances in a discourse, referred to here as segments, are widely assumedto form coherent units. Further, the segmental structure of discourse has been claimed ...
Research on coreference resolution and summarization has modeled the way entities are realized as concrete phrases in discourse. In particular there exist models of the noun phras...
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 ...
This paper presents an architecture for the generation of spoken monologues with contextually appropriate intonation. A twotiered information structure representation is used in t...
The centering framework explains local coherence by relating local focus and the form of referring expressions. It has proven useful in monolog, but its utility for multiparty dis...