II.—MENTAL ELABORATION

Elaboration on Elaboration: Event Coreference

This paper discusses and clariies the elaboration discourse relation using the notion of event coreference. Unlike entity coreference, event coreference has rarely been studied in detail, except for (pro)nominals referring to an event. Here the focus will be on event coreference between two sentences (in an elaboration relation). This study will put forward unusual linguistic phenomena, e.g. co...

Circumstance Elaboration Joint Joint Example Elaboration Elaboration Condition Circumstance

Researchers in discourse have long hypothesized that the nuclei of a rhetorical structure tree provide a good summary of the text for which that tree was built. In this paper, I discuss a psy-cholinguistic experiment that validates this hypothesis , but that also shows that the distinction between nuclei and satellites is not suucient if we want to build summaries of very high quality. I empiri...

FORMALIZING ELABORATION TOLERANCE iii 2 THE ELABORATION

Elaboration Tolerance

A formalism is elaboration tolerant to the extent that it is convenient to modify a set of facts expressed in the formalism to take into account new phenomena or changed circumstances. Representations of information in natural language have good elaboration tolerance when used with human background knowledge. Human-level AI will require representations with much more elaboration tolerance than ...

Rhythmic similarity through elaboration

Rhythmic similarity techniques for audio tend to evaluate how close to identical two rhythms are. This paper proposes a similarity metric based on rhythmic elaboration that matches rhythms that share the same beats regardless of tempo or identicalness. Elaborations can help an application decide where to transition between songs. Potential applications include automatically generating a non-sto...