Song Rou Jiang Yuru Wang Jingyi Beijing Language and Culture University Beijing University of Polytechnic Technology Beijing Forest University Beijing University of Information Science and technology Abstract: Due to the lack of external formal marks, components in Chinese discourse can hardly be categorized into the traditional syntactic system. In fact, Chinese is a typical topic-prominent la...

This paper reports on a model that serves anaphora resolution. A distinction will be made between possible antecedents and preferred an.tecedents. The set of linguistically possible can-didates will be detined in terms of compatibili ty and recency. Preferred antecedents are a subset of the possible antecedents, selected by the application of extralinguistic knowledge. Motivation for the partic...

Formulaic sequence (FS) is a general term often used to refer to various types of recurrent clusters. One particular type of FSs common in different registers is lexical bundles (LBs). This study investigated whether LBs are stored and processed as a whole in the mind of language users and whether their functional discourse type has any effect on their processing. To serve these objectives, thr...

Classroom discourse is the primary medium through which teaching and learning occur. Managed skillfully, it can provide an opportunity for students to develop their understanding and to profit from the ideas of their peers and the teacher. Yet it is difficult for teachers to be mindful of the nature and distribution of classroom discourse at the same time as they juggle other instructional conc...

This paper reports the submitted discourse relation classification systems of the language information processing group of Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) to the CoNLL-2016 shared task. In this work, discriminative methods were employed according to the different characteristics of English and Chinese discourse structures. Additionally, distributed representations were introduced to catch...

The argument here concerns the episodic organization of discourse and measurement in the sciences. It is developed in two parts. First, empirical effects of episodic organization in discourse processing are demonstrated. The impact on first and second language users is shown by demonstrating loss in comprehension when episodic organization is disrupted. Empirical evidence is also summarized sho...

automated feedback that helps them revise their work and ultimately improve their writing skills. These applications also address educational researchers’ interest in individualized instruction. Specifically, feedback that refers explicitly to students’own writing is more effective than general feedback.3 Our discourse analysis software, which is embedded in Criterion (www.etstechnologies.com),...

Recent research in psycholinguistics has seen a growing interest in the role of prediction in sentence processing. Most attempts to computationally model predictive processing have focused on syntactic prediction. Examples include Hale (2001)’s surprisal model, which relates processing effort to the conditional probability of the current word given the previous words in the sentence. Recent wor...

HA, EUN YOUNG. Modeling Discourse Structure and Temporal Event Relations for Automated Document Summarization with Markov Logic Networks. (Under the direction of James C. Lester.) Recent years have seen significant progress in natural language processing. A key challenge posed by many natural language applications ranging from text summarization to question answering and machine translation is ...