Discourse

Once a_.nn ~ is introduced into a discourse, the form of subsequent references to it are strongly governed by convention. This paper discusses how those conventions can be represented for …...

We propose a mapping between prosodic phenomena and semantico-pragmatic effects based upon the hypothesis that intona- tion conveys information about the intentional as well as the atten- tional structure of …...

We present a natural language interface system which is based entirely on trained statistical models. The system consists of three stages of processing: parsing, semantic interpretation, and discourse. Each of …...

Studies of gender balance in academic com- puter science are typically based on statistics on enrollment and graduation. Going beyond these coarse measures of gender participation, we conduct a fine-grained …...

Automatic recognition of CORROBO- RATE and CONTRAST relations between citations may enhance citation analysis. We describe a system that identifies these citation relations using predicate/argument and discourse structures. 1...