Multidisciplinary Discourse

Discourse Relations, Discourse Structure, Discourse Semantics

It is generally accepted that a discourse connective expresses a semantic and/or pragmatic relation between its matrix sentence or clause and something in the previous discourse. Usually the sense of this relation is expressed as a label, often within a hierarchy of sense labels. But the meaning of these labels may vary from system to system, and the same connective may be assigned different la...

Multidisciplinary Solutions for Multidisciplinary Problems

The implications and challenges for Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) are increasing. The entire software design and development process is affected by the impact of human, organisational, and social issues. Collaboration with different disciplines is becoming necessary in order to fully understand issues that do not obviously fall within the remit of software engineering practices. ESE can ...

Discourse Deixis and Discourse Processing

Computational approaches to discourse understanding have a two-part goal: (1) identifying those aspects of discourse understanding that require process-based accounts, and (2) characterizing the processes and data structures they involve. To date, in the area of reference, process-based accounts have been developed for reference via anaphoric pronouns and via definite descriptors. In this paper...

Automated Discourse Generation Using Discourse Structure Relations

This paper summarizes work over the past ve years on the automated planning and generation of multisentence texts using discourse structure relations, placing it in context of ongoing eeorts by Computational Linguists and Linguists to understand the structure of discourse. Based on a series of studies by the author and others, the paper describes how the orientation of generation toward communi...

Explicit Discourse Connectives / Implicit Discourse Relations