In this paper we present our experiments with different annotation workflows for annotating discourse relations in the Hindi Discourse Relation Bank(HDRB). In view of the growing interest in the development of discourse data-banks based on the PDTB framework and the complexity associated with the discourse annotation, it is important to study and analyze approaches and practices followed in the...

This paper is concerned with the robust analysis of the discourse structure of a text via underspecification. Most current discourse theories (e.g. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson (1988), Abduction by Hobbs et al. (1993) or Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) by Asher (1993)) require detailed world and context knowledge for the derivation of the discourse str...

Each utterance of a discourse either bears a semantic relation to a preceding utterance, or constitutes the onset of a new semantic unit. Thus, a critical task in discourse understanding is determining how to relate each new utterance to the current representation of the discourse, Sequences of semantically related utterances are referred to as segrnents. The discourse intentions of the speaker...

Given that narratives are everywhere, this special issue aims to contribute the field of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS, also known as Analysis) by (a) considering concep...

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is an effective method of the analysis. It aimed at analyzing special relationship between power and traditional ideology in implied discourse. Traditional always analyzes structure composition terms linguistic features, CDA makes language more creative. deeply explores inherent potential systematically interprets deep meaning This paper will take specific corp...