Discourse Coherence

We examine the role of temporal connec- tives in multi-sentence discourse. In cer- tain contexts, sentences containing tempo- ral connectives that are equivalent in tem- porai structure can fail to …...

Forms of Japanese referring expressions are mainly divided into four types: bare NPs, demonstrative NPs (i.e. either as determiner or as pronoun) and zero pronouns. Out of the four types …...

We present a model for discourse co- herence which combines the local entity- based approach of (Barzilay and Lapata, 2005) and the HMM-based content model of (Barzilay and Lee, 2004). …...

AbstractThis paper discusses our ongoing work on constructing an annotated corpus of children’s stories for further studies on the linguistic, computational, and cognitive aspects of story structure and understanding. Given …...

We present a novel model to represent and assess the discourse coherence of text. Our model assumes that coherent text implicitly favors certain types of discourse relation tran- sitions. We …...

Discourse coherence is an important aspect of natural language that is still understudied in computational linguistics. Our aim is to learn factors that constitute coherent discourse from data, with a …...

This study focuses on modeling discourse co- herence in the context of automated assess- ment of spontaneous speech from non-native speakers. Discourse coherence has always been used as a key …...

AbstractDiscourse coherence is strongly associated with text quality, making it important to natural language generation and understanding. Yet existing models of coherence focus on measuring individual aspects of coherence (lexical …...

AbstractWe address the task of assessing discourse coherence, an aspect of text quality that is essential for many NLP tasks, such as summarization and language assessment. We propose a hierarchical …...

AbstractIn order for language models to aid physics research, they must first encode representations of mathematical and natural language discourse which lead to coherent explanations, with correct ordering and relevance …...

AbstractCoherence is an important aspect of text quality, and various approaches have been applied to coherence modeling. However, existing methods solely focus on a single document’s coherence patterns, ignoring the …...