Abstract This article introduces a new method for grouping keywords and examines the extent to which it also allows analysts explore interaction of discourse subregister. It uses multivariate statistical technique, Multiple Correspondence Analysis, reveal dimensions co-occur across texts corpus. These are then interpreted in terms discourses they contribute within data, thus forming basis corpu...

We present discourse-level annotation of newspaper texts in German and English, as part of an ongoing project aimed at investigating information structure from a cross-linguistic perspective. Rather than annotating some specific notion of information structure, we propose a theory-neutral annotation of basic features at the levels of syntax, prosody and discourse, using treebank data as a start...

This study shares the view that reference in discourse is influenced by the distance to prior mentions of the referent in the discourse. Kibrik (1996, 1999) suggested a measurement of rhetorical distance to assess this factor. In this paper we address three complications created by that methodology when applied to a large corpus of written newspaper texts. These problems include: difference bet...

This paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in Malaysia as construed in public discourse in English, a language of power in Malaysia. The term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of Malaysia, the English-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

We propose a simple and effective metric for automatically evaluating discourse coherence of a text using the outputs of a coreference resolution model. According to the idea that a writer tends to appropriately utilise coreference relations when writing a coherent text, we introduce a metric of discourse coherence based on automatically identified coreference relations. We empirically evaluate...

We present an implemented system for processing definite descriptions. The system is based on the results of a corpus analysis previously reported, which showed how common discourse-new descriptions are in newspaper corpora, and identified several problems to be dealt with when developing computational methods for interpreting bridging descriptions. The annotated corpus produced in this earlier...