Discourse structure and discourse relations are an important ingredient in systems for the analysis of text that go beyond the boundary of single clauses. Discourse relations often indicate important additional information about the connection between two clauses, such as causality, and are widely believed to have an influence on aspects of reference resolution. More so than for referential ann...

Topic Areas or Theme ID: discourse analysis, discourse segmentation, discourse plans Word Count: 3196 words (excluding gures) Under consideration for other conferences (specify)? No. Abstract We propose a promising research problem, the machine veriication of textbook proofs. It shows that textbook proofs are a suuciently complex and highly struc-tured form of discourse, embedded in a well-deen...

An important aspect of discourse understanding and generation involves the recognition and processing of discourse relations. These are conveyed by discourse connectives, i.e., lexical items like because and as a result or implicit connectives expressing an inferred discourse relation. The Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB) provides annotations of the argument structure, attribution and semantics o...

Controlled Language checking has traditionally been applied largely on a sentence level by placing restrictions on permissible vocabulary and permissible syntactic constructions, including proper punctuation. Only little attention has been paid to document or discourse level checking. In this paper, we report on work on EasyEnglishAnalyzer to handle certain discourse and document level checks. ...

This paper proposes a computational system of narrative discourse generation and its implementation. In the system, Genette’s discourse theory is reconstructed as discourse techniques which transform the tree structure for a story into discourse structures. Also, we introduce Jauss’s reception theory to construct the control mechanism, which continues discourse generation through generation cyc...

This paper presents a comtmtational model of incremental utterance production in task-oriented dialogues. This model incrementally produces utterantes to propose the solution of a given problem, while simultaneously solving the problem in a stepwise manner. Even when the solution has been partially determined, this model starts utterances to satisfy time constraints where pauses in mid-utteranc...

I want to tell a story about computational approaches to discourse structure. Like all such stories, it takes some liberty with actual events and times, but I think stories put things into perspective, and make it easier to understand where we are and how we might progress. Part 1 of the story (Section 2) is the past. Here we see early computational work on discourse structure aiming to assign ...

In this paper, we will focus on the development, implementation, and evolution of a discourse model which is used to computationally instantiate a discourse structure in individual texts. This discourse model was developed for use in a Text Structuring module that recognizes discourse-level structure within a large-scale information retrieval system, DR-LINK (Liddy Myaeng, 1993). The Text Struc...

This tiiesis addresses a difficult problem in text processing: crealing a System lo automalically dérive rhetorical structures o f text. Allhough thè rhelorical structure lias proven to be useful in many fields o f text processing sucli as text summarisation and information extraction, Systems that auiomalically generate rhetorical structures with high accuracy are difficult to find. This is bc...

Introduction Grosz and Sidner (1990) have argued that discourses are primarily examples of collaborative activity , and hence that a model of plans for discourse must deal adequately with collaboration. In particular, it must provide a means of representing and distinguishing among agents' beliefs and of stating the ways in which the intentions of diier-ent agents contribute to achieving their ...