Automatically detecting discourse segments is an important preliminary step towards full discourse parsing. Previous research on discourse segmentation have relied on the assumpti...
Stergos D. Afantenos, Pascal Denis, Philippe Mulle...
The current study presents a conversion and unification of the Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0 under the XML format. The converted corpus allows for a simultaneous search for syntacti...
Underspecification-based algorithms for processing partially disambiguated discourse structure must cope with extremely high numbers of readings. Based on previous work on dominan...
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...
Abstract. Discourse segmentation is the division of a text into minimal discourse segments, which form the leaves in the trees that are used to represent discourse structures. A de...
Abstract. The interpretation of complex discourse, such as arguments, is a difficult task that often requires validation, i.e., a system may need to present its interpretation of ...
Discourse, a form of collaborative learning [44], is one of the most widely used methods of teaching and learning in the online environment. Particularly in large courses, discour...
I. Wong-Bushby, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Michael Biebe...
A text parsing component designed to be part of a system that assists students in academic reading an writing is presented. The parser can automatically add a relational discourse...
Identifying discourse relations in a text is essential for various tasks in Natural Language Processing, such as automatic text summarization, question-answering, and dialogue gene...
Hugo Hernault, Danushka Bollegala, Mitsuru Ishizuk...