This paper presents our implemented computational model for interpreting and generating indirect answers to Yes-No questions. Its main features are 1) a discourse-plan-based appro...
This paper describes TextTiling,an algorithmfor partitioning expository texts into coherent multi-paragraph discourse units which re ect the subtopic structure of the texts. The a...
We show that more head-driven parsing algorithms can he formulated than those occurring in the existing literature. These algorithms are inspired by a family of left-to-right pars...
It is claimed that a variety of facts concerning ellipsis, event reference, and interclausal coherence can be explained by two features of the linguistic form in question: (1) whe...
Optimality Theory, a constraint-based phonology and morphology paradigm, has allowed linguists to make elegant analyses of many phenomena, including infixation and reduplication. ...