This paper describes the submitted discourse parsing system of the natural language group of Soochow University (SoNLP-DP) to the CoNLL 2015 shared task. Our System classifies discourse relations into explicit and non-explicit relations and uses a pipeline platform to conduct every subtask to form an end-toend shallow discourse parser in the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB). Our system is evaluat...

The corpora available for training discourse relation classifiers are annotated using a general set of discourse relations. However, for certain applications, custom discourse relations are required. Creating a new annotated corpus with a new relation taxonomy is a timeconsuming and costly process. We address this problem by proposing a semi-supervised approach to discourse relation classificat...

The work presented here describes our participation in CoNLL 2015 shared task in the closed track. Here we have used a hybrid approach, where Machine Learning (ML) technique and linguistic rules are used to identify the discourse relations. We have developed this system with a view that it consistently works across all domains and all types of text corpus. We have obtained encouraging results. ...

Notwithstanding the fact that extensive studies have highlighted positive impact of flipped learning on developing learners’ skills, literature has still been silent its effect Indonesian English communicative competence. To address this issue, experimental study sheds some light significant method A total 40 learners a university in Indonesia were grouped into and non-flipped classrooms. Throu...

This paper presents the results of a sentence completion study and a self-paced reading experiment involving a relative clause attachment ambiguity. Our results provide evidence that comprehenders resolve local structural ambiguity during incremental sentence processing by combining expectations about upcoming discourse continuations with their knowledge of typical relationships between event p...

Intercultural and cross-cultural studies play a significant role in understanding the influence of culture on communication, especially pragmatic communication any language. The current study aims to explore phenomenon apology strategies used by Hindko speakers enrolled at University Kotli AJK Muzaffarabad. data were collected through Discourse Completion Test from 10 various departments UAJK T...

This is a pragmatic study to investigate the communicative behavior of Egyptian Arabic Speakers (EASs) in act complaining. The participants consist 50 (EASs). They are requested complete Discourse Completion Test (DCT) involving six complaint-inducing scenarios. Trosborg's taxonomy complaint strategies (1995) used for classifying data, with three additional presented Yian's (2008) research. Tha...

Independent Studies and Capstones Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences 1947 The reliability and validity of monitored connected discourse as a test of the threshold of intelligibilityThe reliability and validity of monitored connected discourse as a test of the threshold of intelligibility"


 This study examines the cognitive information processes that Turkish advanced non-native speakers of English employ in assigning referents this and reading production. We predicted these would assign relation to linear distance between discourse-linked anaphors their discourse (i.e., based on spatial-temporal features that), which means they prefer for a referent mentioned proximal chunk...

Subjects studied a list of words (e.g., cheetah) and received an implicit word fragment completion test (complete -h-t-h). On the test, the ratio of studied to nonstudied items (proportion overlap) was 0, 25, 50, 75, or 100%. Subjects were administered the identical test twice. Proportion overlap did not affect priming in word fragment completion, on either the first or second test. Also, the c...