Corpus Study

This paper presents a corpus study that ex- plores the extent to which captions con- tribute to recognizing the intended mes- sage of an information graphic. It then presents an …...

The annotations of explicit and implicit discourse connectives in the Penn Discourse Treebank make it possible to investigate on a large scale how different types of discourse relations are expressed. …...

Short answer questions for reading compre- hension are a common task in foreign lan- guage learning. Automatic short answer scor- ing is the task of automatically assessing the semantic content …...

We investigate implicit corrections in the form of contrastive discourse in child- adult interaction, which have been argued to contribute to language learning. In con- trast to previous work in …...