This paper proposes a new framework for discourse analysis, in the spirit of Grosz and Sid-ner (1986), Webber (1987a,b) but differentiated with respect to the type or genre of discourse. It is argued that different genres call for different representations and processing strategies; particularly important is the distinction between subjective, pefformative discourse and objective discourse, of ...

The candidate connrms that the work submitted is his own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. 2 1 Abstract The last two decades have witnessed the development of theories dealing with discourse. Contributions from Linguistics, Philosophy, and Logics have helped to expand the knowledge of the eld. But, independently of the researchers' v...

This paper presents a production (rulebased) system designed to implement a general purpose discourse processing engine for spoken dialogue systems, and tries to show that the engine can carry out discourse and semantic analyses of various phenomena in spoken language in an integrated manner. The function of the engine is to give semantic/discourse analysis to parsed utterances and to determine...

Recent theories of focusing and reference rely crucially on discourse structure to constrain the availability of discourse entities for reference, but deriving the structure of an arbitrary discourse has proved to be a significant problem. A useful level of problem reduction may be achieved by analyzing discourse in which the structure is explicit, rather than implicit. In this paper we conside...

The lack of open discourse corpus for Chinese brings limitations for many natural language processing tasks. In this work, we present the first open discourse treebank for Chinese, namely, the Discourse Treebank for Chinese (DTBC). At the current stage, we annotated explicit intra-sentence discourse connectives, their corresponding arguments and senses for all 890 documents of the Chinese Treeb...

This paper presents a metaphor interpretation pipeline based on abductive inference. In this framework following (Hobbs, 1992) metaphor interpretation is modelled as a part of the general discourse processing problem, such that the overall discourse coherence is supported. We present an experimental evaluation of the proposed approach using linguistic data in English and Russian.