This paper focuses on the interpretation of metaphor in discourse. We build on previous work [1] in which we provide a formalization in a computationally-oriented formal semantic framework of a set of mappings that we claim are required for the interpretation of map-transcending metaphor. Such mappings are domain-independent and are identified as invariant adjuncts to any conceptual metaphor. I...

Consider an interoretive device that in some manner keeps track of individuals that have been mentioned iu a discourse and what has been said about them. One feature any such device must have is to he able to recognize wPen a novel individual aopears in so~e sentence. For examole, in Drocessin~ sentence (1), it N~st recognize that the NP a car refers to some yet unmentioned object, which in the...

What is a Community Web ? n A group of people sharing a domain of discourse and a set of information

This paper is concerned with a hierarchical representation of the convex relation algebra, which is a computationally tractable subset of Allen’s interval calculus [1, 11]. The hierarchy of convex relations is used to determine the minimal point relation constraints which hold between the end points of the intervals. Nine convex relations are proven to be special, because they introduce new con...

A corpus of spontaneous route descriptions was collected from 8 speakers (5 males and 3 females). The corpus was labelled according to the ToBI standard and a discourse analysis was completed. Four discourse tour acts were identified and these were found to occur mainly in non-embedded linear sequences. In general, the intonation of each route description was characterised by a single intonatio...

The paper introduces a possibility of new research offered by a multi-dimensional annotation of the Prague Dependency Treebank. It focuses on exploitation of the annotation of coreference for the annotation of discourse relations expressed by multiword expressions. It tries to find which aspect interlinks these linguistic areas and how we can use this interplay in automatic searching for Czech ...

In previous work, we presented a preliminary study to identify paraphrases between technical and lay discourse types from medical corpora dedicated to the French language. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the same kinds of paraphrases as for French can be detected between English technical and lay discourse types and report the adaptation of our method from French to English. Starting...

The idea of contrast plays an important role in the analysis of information structure and discourse structure. In the literature on information structure, we encounter the concept of contrastive focus and of contrastive topic, and there is also the opinion that focus in general establishes a contrast. In the literature on discourse structure, it is commonly held that there is a discourse relati...