This paper investigates the nature of Japanese argument cluster (Steedman 2000b). Based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar, a type-raising analysis of case particles which captures some aspects of the information structure in Japanese is discussed, including contrastive interpretation of coordination, wh-constructions, and some theme and rheme-related grammatical phenomena. These observations of...

As a grammatical device, Theme-Rheme structure plays an important role in organizing and analyzing discourse. Theme Progression patterns (hereinafter called TP patterns) are significant method of the analysis of textual cohesion and organization. Based on linguist Danes’ theory about TP patterns, this paper tries to present a contrastive analysis of the texts of consecutive interpretation in En...

Coreference resolution is a major task of natural language processing. Although the mention-pair model is one of the most influential learning-based coreference models, it is hard to make any further improvements of the performance because of its inherent defects. From the perspective of discourse analysis, a micro-topic model based on the theme-rheme structure is proposed for coreference resol...

1) What function does Theme perform in written workplace texts? After an initial analysis of the data, subsequent and more focused questions were developed. These more specific questions were theoretically oriented and focused primarily on identifying the boundary between Theme and Rheme, and the issues arising from decisions in this respect. A discussion of these questions, providing the theor...

ToBI, in its conception, was an attempt to describe intonation in terms of phonological categories. An effect of the success of ToBI in doing this has been to make it standard to try to characterise all intonational phonological distinctions in terms of ToBI distinctions, i.e. segmental alignment of pitch targets and pitch height as either High or Low. Here we report a series of experiments whi...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 2School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, ShiZi Road, Suzhou, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Background: How to build a suitable discourse topic structure is an important issue in discourse topic analysis, which is the core of natural language understanding. Not only is it the key ba...

It is generally recognized that many second language learners have difficulties with cohesion in academic texts.  Writing seems to be the most difficult subject for many students. To produce good writing, it is necessary to know how to organize Theme and Rheme in a text. Thematic structure as an important feature in textual metafunction plays a significant role in promoting the textual coherenc...

A COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION STRUCTURE USING PARALLEL EXPOSITORY TEXTS IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE Nobo N. Komagata Supervisor: Dr. Mark J. Steedman This thesis concerns the notion of ‘information structure’: informally, organization of information in an utterance with respect to the context. Information structure has been recognized as a critical element in a number of computer applicat...