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ACL
1992
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The Representation of Multimodal User Interface Dialogues Using Discourse Pegs
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 (...
Susann LuperFoy
ACL
1992
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Conversational Implicatures in Indirect Replies
I In this paper we present algorithms for the interpretation and generation of a kind of particularized conversational implicature occurring in certain indirect replies. Our algori...
Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry
ACL
1994
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Discourse Obligations in Dialogue Processing
We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered attitudes of belief, goal, and i...
David R. Traum, James F. Allen
COLING
2000
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An Empirical Investigation of the Relation Between Discourse Structure and Co-Reference
We compare the potential of two classes of linear and hierarchical models of discourse to determine co-reference links and resolve anaphors. The comparison uses a corpus of thirty...
Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, Daniel Marcu, Valentin Tab...
NAACL
2003
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Sentence Level Discourse Parsing using Syntactic and Lexical Information
We introduce two probabilistic models that can be used to identify elementary discourse units and build sentence-level discourse parse trees. The models use syntactic and lexical ...
Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu
NAACL
2004
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Evaluating Multiple Aspects of Coherence in Student Essays
CriterionSM Online Essay Evaluation Service includes a capability that labels sentences in student writing with essay-based discourse elements (e.g., thesis statements). We descri...
Derrick Higgins, Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, Clau...
ECIS
2004
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Discourse analysis: making complex methodology simple
Discursive-based analysis of organizations is not new in the field of interpretive social studies. Since not long ago have information systems (IS) studies also shown a keen inter...
Tatyana V. Bondarouk, Huub J. M. Ruël
NAACL
2007
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Exploiting Event Semantics to Parse the Rhetorical Structure of Natural Language Text
Previous work on discourse parsing has mostly relied on surface syntactic and lexical features; the use of semantics is limited to shallow semantics. The goal of this thesis is to...
Rajen Subba
LREC
2008
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The Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0
We present the second version of the Penn Discourse Treebank, PDTB-2.0, describing its lexically-grounded annotations of discourse s and their two abstract object arguments over t...
Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Milt...
LREC
2008
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In Contrast - A Complex Discourse Connective
This paper presents a corpus-based study of the discourse connective in contrast. The corpus data are drawn from the British National Corpus (BNC) and are analyzed at the levels o...
Erhard W. Hinrichs, Monica Lau