Chinese Comma Disambiguation for Discourse Analysis

Maximum Entropy for Chinese Comma Classification with Rich Linguistic Features

Discourse relation is an important content of discourse semantic analysis, and the study of punctuation is of importance for discourse relation. In this paper, we propose a method of Chinese comma classification based on maximum entropy (ME). This method classifies the sentence relation based on comma with ME by extracting rich linguistic features before and after the commas in sentences. Exper...

A Clause-Level Hybrid Approach to Chinese Empty Element Recovery

Empty elements (EEs) play a critical role in Chinese syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis. Previous studies employ a language-independent sentence-level approach to EE recovery, by casting it as a linear tagging or structured parsing problem. In comparison, this paper proposes a clauselevel hybrid approach to address specific problems in Chinese EE recovery, which recovers EEs in Chinese ...

Chinese Comma Disambiguation on K-best Parse Trees

Detection, Disambiguation and Argument Identification of Discourse Connectives in Chinese Discourse Parsing

In this paper, we investigate four important issues together for explicit discourse relation labelling in Chinese texts: (1) discourse connective extraction, (2) linking ambiguity resolution, (3) relation type disambiguation, and (4) argument boundary identification. In a pipelined Chinese discourse parser, we identify potential connective candidates by string matching, eliminate non-discourse ...

Punctuation, Prosody, and Discourse: Afterthought Vs. Right Dislocation

In a reading production experiment we investigate the impact of punctuation and discourse structure on the prosodic differentiation of right dislocation (RD) and afterthought (AT). Both discourse structure and punctuation are likely to affect the prosodic marking of these right-peripheral constructions, as certain prosodic markings are appropriate only in certain discourse structures, and punct...