the intonational structuring of discourse

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... triple consisting of the event type of the utterance, the relation word, and the event type of the preceding utterance. – add the candidate triple to the BKB, if it found in the BKB, increase ... automatically parsed corpora. While the relation word is usually part of the utterance that represents the source of the relation, determining the appropriate target (an- tecedent) of the relation may be difficult ... where the factual target of the rela- tion was non-adjacent) are equally distributed, they should be filtered out by the significance tests. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the validity of this...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 20:20

... among E, R and S, but rather by successively taking account of the meanings of the nested pres, futr and perf operators in the LF of the sentence. As it happens, each of those operators implicitly ... tree nodes. The traver- sal of trees and the addition of new tokens is simply and fully determined by the logical forms of the sentences being interpreted. The major advantage of tense trees ... e5], i.e., the breaking of the ankle, e6, is before the state John is in at the time of the doctor's talking to him, e4. In addition, the recursive rules take correct account of embedding....

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... paper, we study the utility of the dis- course structure on the user side of a dialogue sys- tem. One related study is that of (Rich and Sidner, 1998). Similar to the NM, they use the discourse structure ... d e- scribe the motion of the person and his keys while he is holding them. Then we will look at the motion o f the person and his keys after he lets go of them. Let's begin by looking at the ... perception of the system. We find that the NM presence significantly improves user’s perception of the system in terms of their ability to concen- trate on the instruction (Q3), in terms of their...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... substituted for another while preserving the meaning of a text. Knott (1996) studies the substitutability of discourse connectives, and proposes that substitutability can motivate the- ories of discourse ... q(x) = 0. these results demonstrate a three way correspon- dence between the human ratings of the similar- ity of a pair of connectives, their substitutabil- ity relationship, and their distributional ... The task was then to decide automatically which of q and q  is the SYNONYM of p. The second task was identical in nature to the first, however here the relationship between p and q was either SYNONYMY...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 15:20

... expected of the user, the inferential machinery can derive the appropriate intention behind the use of a noun phrase fragment. The theory should account for 48% of the 32 DEPENDENCIES OF DISCOURSE ... Frequency of Request types Since most of each dialogue consisted of the making of requests, the first analysis examined the frequency of the various kinds of requests in the corpus of five ... from those behind the uttering of " ;the smallest of the red pieces?", where the hearer is expected to physically identify the piece. According to the theory, the speaker ' s...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... verb, then subtype := med/situation 15. if the head of the NP and one of the preceding verbs in the same sentence share the same WordNet hypernym which is not in synsets that appear one of the ... approximations of the definitions of the corresponding subtypes, the med rules are more complicated than their old counterparts, in part because of their reliance on the extraction of so- phisticated ... cap- ture a crucial aspect of the ruleset: the ordering of the rules. For instance, Rule i should be applied only if the conditions of the first i−1 rules are not satisfied by the NP, but such ordering...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 03:20

... about 12% of sentences do not contain the discourse marker they are supposed to. Of the discourse markers used in the experiments, their frequencies in the database ranged from 270 for the instant ... level of judgement was therefore exercised by the author. parser errors, and the fact that the syntactic heuris- tics are not foolproof, the database contains noise. Manual analysis of a sample of ... between occurrences of then in the antecedent (subordinate) and consequent (main) clauses linked by if. We also recorded the presence of other discourse markers in the two clauses, as these had previously 3 For...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... retrieved by way of their corresponding node(s) in the syntax; the oper- ations performed on these representations are dictated by the nature of the constraints imposed. The two types of inference ... with in the treatment of VP-eUipsis, perhaps at the cost of some degree of the- oretical inelegance. However, this aspect was crucial for handling the gapping data, since the infelicity of gapping ... refused to ] The current approach accounts for these cases. The works of Priist (1992) and Asher (1993) pro- vide analyses of VP-ellipsis 16 in the context of an account of discourse structure...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... parses on the basis of the discourse information If the partial parses are not unified into a single structure in the previous step, they are joined to- gether on the basis of the discourse ... parses with the application of our method, the heuristic rules were applied. In such cases the default rule of joining the root node of the second partial parse to the last node of the first ... for the extra TAT required as a result of using the discourse information, provided the size of the discourse was kept to between 100 and 300 sentences. In this paper, the term " ;discourse& quot;...

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Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 17:08

... layouts, there is a minority strategy, used by 4% of the speakers (3 out of 72 cases of the data of Linde (1974)) describing the layout in the form of a map. The speaker first describes the outside ... delete, or move nodes of the tree. The sequence of transformations encodes the construction of the discourse as it actually proceeds in time. We now turn to a discussion of the discourse units which ... the discourse level. In order =o demonstrate that at leas= some of the structure found at the discourse level is independent of the structure of the semantic domain, we may show that there...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:20

... of the dependency tree is directly dependent on another word if and only if there is a single line between the node of the first word and that of the second. For our purpose the strength of ... case the value of our transitive dependency model is deter- mined by the validity of the output of the coherent discourse generator in terms of its input. If we have uncovered some of the mechanisms ... morphemes.) The rules of dependency are as follows: 1. The head of the main verb phrase of a sentence or clause is dependent upon the head of the subject. 2. The head of a direct object phrase...

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