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COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Realization of Discourse Relations by Other Means: Alternative Lexicalizations
Studies of discourse relations have not, in the past, attempted to characterize what serves as evidence for them, beyond lists of frozen expressions, or markers, drawn from a few ...
Rashmi Prasad, Aravind K. Joshi, Bonnie L. Webber
ACL
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text
Discourse connectives are words or phrases such as once, since, and on the contrary that explicitly signal the presence of a discourse relation. There are two types of ambiguity t...
Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova
NAACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Reformulating Discourse Connectives for Non-Expert Readers
In this paper we report a behavioural experiment documenting that different lexicosyntactic formulations of the discourse relation of causation are deemed more or less acceptable ...
Advaith Siddharthan, Napoleon Katsos
ANLP
2000
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14 years 1 months ago
Multiple Discourse Marker Occurrence: Creating Hierarchies for Natural Language Generation
Most studies on discourse markers implicitly assume that only one marker or discourse relation will occur in a sentence. In reality, more than one relation may hold between text s...
Sarah Louise Oates
LREC
2008
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14 years 1 months ago
Building an Annotated Corpus for Text Summarization and Question Answering
We describe ongoing work in semi-automatic annotating corpus, with the goal to answer "why" question in question answering system and give a construction of the coherent...
Patcharee Varasai, Chaveevan Pechsiri, Thana Sukva...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Easily Identifiable Discourse Relations
We present a corpus study of local discourse relations based on the Penn Discourse Tree Bank, a large manually annotated corpus of explicitly or implicitly realized relations. We ...
Emily Pitler, Mridhula Raghupathy, Hena Mehta, Ani...
CICLING
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Sense Annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank
Abstract. An important aspect of discourse understanding and generation involves the recognition and processing of discourse relations. These are conveyed by discourse connectives,...
Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee, Aravind...