The current debate regarding the data structure necessary to represent discourse structure, specifically whether tree-structure is sufficient to represent discourse structure or not, is mainly focused on written text. This paper reviews some of the major claims about the structure in discourse and proposes an investigation of discourse structure for simultaneous spoken Turkish by focusing on tr...

Recently, an image compression algorithm based on the warped discrete cosine transform has been proposed (Cho and Mitra, IEEE Trans Circuits Systems Video Technol 10 (8) (2000) 1364). The algorithm outperforms JPEG, especially for images with high frequency contents and compound images consisting of picture and text. In this paper, we improve the compression performance by optimizing the parame...

In this study, we investigated the psychological processes in spontaneous discourse comprehension through a network theory of discourse representation. Existing models of narrative comprehension describe the importance of causality processing for forming a representation of a text, but usually in the context of deliberately composed texts rather than in spontaneous, unplanned discourse. Our aim...

The identification of discourse units is an essential step in discourse parsing, the automatic construction of a discourse structure from a text. We present a rule-based algorithm to identify elementary discourse units (EDUs) in Dutch written text. Contrary to approaches that focus on the determination of segment boundaries, we identify complete discourse units, which is especially helpful for ...

With the rise of data driven deep neural networks as a realization of universal function approximators, most research on computer vision problems has moved away from hand crafted classical image processing algorithms. This paper shows that with a well designed algorithm, we are capable of outperforming neural network based methods on the task of depth completion. The proposed algorithm is simpl...

In this paper, we aim at comparing some deviations from standard writing present in Portuguese and English informal chats in order to reflect on the linguistic knowledge that lies beneath these innovative spellings: phonetic, phonological or orthographic.

The identification of new versus given information within a text has been frequently investigated by researchers of language and discourse. Despite theoretical advances, an accurate computational method for assessing the degree to which a text contains new versus given information has not previously been implemented. This study discusses a variety of computational new/given systems and analyzes...