The three-tiered discourse representation defined in (Luperfoy, 1991) is applied to multimodal humancomputer interface (HCI) dialogues. In the applied system the three tiers are (...
Until recently, referring expression generation (reg) research focused on the task of selecting the semantic content of definite mentions of listener-familiar discourse entities. I...
Pipelined Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems have grown increasingly complex as architectural modules were added to support language functionalities such as referring expre...
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 ...
The main purpose of communication is to exchange information. Any discourse understanding model should be able to process the flow of information throughout the entire text. Accor...