Discourse context and sentence perception∗

Sentence context induces lexical bias in audiovisual speech perception

Using behavioral, electrophysiological, neuroimaging, and other techniques, many psycholinguistic studies have shown that semantic context facilitates processing of anticipated lexical target items. Particularly strong effects have been obtained with procedures that present semantically constraining incomplete sentences and ask subjects to select, attend to, or generate a final word that either...

Discourse and Dialogue 6.1.1 beyond Sentence Interpretation 6.1.2 Interpretation and Generation in Context 6.2 Discourse Modeling 6.2.1 Overview: Discourse and Dialogue 6.2.2 Discourse Representation Theory

Computational work in discourse has focused on two di erent types of discourse: extended texts and dialogues, both spoken and written. Although there are clear overlaps between these|dialogues contain text-like sequences spoken by a single individual and texts may contain dialogues|the current state of the art leads research to focus on di erent questions for each. In addition, application oppo...

Discourse Segmentation for Sentence Compression

Earlier studies have raised the possibility of summarizing at the level of the sentence. This simplification should help in adapting textual content in a limited space. Therefore, sentence compression is an important resource for automatic summarization systems. However, there are few studies that consider sentence-level discourse segmentation for compression task; to our knowledge, none in Spa...

Tense and Aspect in Sentence and Discourse

Sentence Structure and Discourse Structure: Possible Parallels

The present contribution represents the first step in comparing the nature of syntactico-semantic relations present in the sentence structure to their equivalents in the discourse structure. The study is carried out on the basis of a Czech manually annotated material collected in the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT). According to the semantic analysis of the underlying syntactic structure of a ...