EXPLORING INTERPERSONAL INTERACTION IN WRITTEN DISCOURSE

Discourse Segmentation of German Written Texts

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 definition of elementary discourse segments in German is provided by adapting widely used segmentation principles for English minimal units, while considering punctuation, morphology, sytax, and aspects of the logical document st...

Generating Discourse Structures for Written Text

This paper presents a system for automatically generating discourse structures from written text. The system is divided into two levels: sentence-level and text-level. The sentence-level discourse parser uses syntactic information and cue phrases to segment sentences into elementary discourse units and to generate discourse structures of sentences. At the text-level, constraints about textual a...

Interpersonal Relationships in Group Interaction

The successful deployment of computer supported collaborative learning systems (CSCL) requires taking into account social factors, like preexisting and developing attitudes, relationships between users, incentive mechanisms, organizational flows of control and information. There are examples of solid user communities that formed around pieces of technology (e.g. slashdot.com), but there are als...

IRONY MARKERS IN WRITTEN DISCOURSE 1 The use of co -

Running head : CO - TEXTUAL IRONY MARKERS IN WRITTEN DISCOURSE