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1994
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A Hybrid Reasoning Model for Indirect Answers
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...
Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry
ACL
1994
13 years 11 months ago
Multi-Paragraph Segmentation of Expository Text
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...
Marti A. Hearst
ACL
1994
13 years 11 months ago
An Extended Theory of Head-Driven Parsing
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...
Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta
ACL
1994
13 years 11 months ago
Common Topics and Coherent Situations: Interpreting Ellipsis in the Context of Discourse Inference
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...
Andrew Kehler
ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
On Reversing the Generation Process in Optimality Theory
Optimality Theory, a constraint-based phonology and morphology paradigm, has allowed linguists to make elegant analyses of many phenomena, including infixation and reduplication. ...
J. Eric Fosler