Analyzing Discourse Processing Using a Simple Natural Language Processing Tool

Analyzing Explicitly-Structured Discourse in a Limited Domain: Trouble and Failure Reports

Recent theories of focusing and reference rely crucially on discourse structure to constrain the availability of discourse entities for reference, but deriving the structure of an arbitrary discourse has proved to be a significant problem. A useful level of problem reduction may be achieved by analyzing discourse in which the structure is explicit, rather than implicit. In this paper we conside...

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Processing of Lexical Bundles by Persian Speaking Learners of English

Formulaic sequence (FS) is a general term often used to refer to various types of recurrent clusters. One particular type of FSs common in different registers is lexical bundles (LBs). This study investigated whether LBs are stored and processed as a whole in the mind of language users and whether their functional discourse type has any effect on their processing. To serve these objectives, thr...

Discourse as a Knowledge Resource for Sentence Disambiguation

A consistent text contains rich resources of in formation such as collocation patterns that can be used to resolve ambiguities within its sentences For example attachment ambigui ties in a sentence can be resolved by selecting a candidate attachment that matches attach ments found in other sentences in the same dis course Thus, discourse can be regarded as a valuable knowledge resource for sent...

MultiDPS - A multilingual Discourse Processing System

1 This paper presents an adaptable online Multilingual Discourse Processing System (MultiDPS), composed of four natural language processing tools: named entity recognizer, anaphora resolver, clause splitter and a discourse parser. This NLP Meta System allows any user to run it on the web or via web services and, if necessary, to build its own processing chain, by incorporating knowledge or reso...