It is generally agreed that discourse has a recursive structure and that this structure aaects the semantic interpretation of discourse. Despite this consensus however, few proposals give a precise specii-cation of how the syntax of discourse relates to its semantics. In this paper, I use a variant of Feature-Based Tree Adjoining Grammars to construct discourse structure and its associated sema...

Existing discourse research only focuses on the monolingual languages and the inconsistency between languages limits the power of the discourse theory in multilingual applications such as machine translation. To address this issue, we design and build a bilingual discource corpus in which we are currently defining and annotating the bilingual elementary discourse units (BEDUs). The BEDUs are th...

this study tries to show that how viewpoint functions in discourse. as it will be clarified, it is highly related to the intention of the speaker/writer, and as a result, the orientation (s)he adopts in the discourse. deictic markers function as discourse markers to fix and anchor time, place, agent, and other discursive elements. in this way, the viewpoint adopted by the enunciator/utterer is ...

3. Four selected types of discursive formations 3.1 The discourse of the master 3.2 The discourse of knowledge 3.3 The discourse of lived relationships 3.4 The discourse of the unconscious 4. Some ethical bearings of the interactive-constructivist theory of discourse References 1 Interactive constructivism is a socially and culturally orientated form of constructivism, articulated within the ph...

Recent work investigates the ordering constraints discourse relations impose on texts. Wolf and Gibson (2003) generated GraphBank, a discourse-annotated corpus without a prior constraint to tree-structured annotations, showing that naive annotators generate representations containing multiple-parented nodes and relations with crossing arguments. Webber et al. (2003) hypothesize that discourse m...

Topic Areas or Theme ID: discourse analysis, discourse segmentation, discourse plans Word Count: 3196 words (excluding gures) Under consideration for other conferences (specify)? No. Abstract We propose a promising research problem, the machine veriication of textbook proofs. It shows that textbook proofs are a suuciently complex and highly struc-tured form of discourse, embedded in a well-deen...

An important aspect of discourse understanding and generation involves the recognition and processing of discourse relations. These are conveyed by discourse connectives, i.e., lexical items like because and as a result or implicit connectives expressing an inferred discourse relation. The Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB) provides annotations of the argument structure, attribution and semantics o...

The paper presents a preliminary study on discourse connectives (DC) in Czech. Aiming to build a computerized language corpus capturing discourse relations in Czech, we base our observations on current foreign projects with the same purpose. In this study, first, the different methods of linguistic analysis of the discourse structure and discourse connectives are described, next, the nature and...

In this paper we consider the problem of analysing sentence-level discourse structure. We introduce discourse chunking (i.e., the identification of intra-sentential nucleus and satellite spans) as an alternative to full-scale discourse parsing. Our experiments show that the proposed modelling approach yields results comparable to state-of-the-art while exploiting knowledge-lean features and sma...

We are compiling a corpus of Dutch texts annotated with discourse structure and lexical cohesion, containing initially 80 texts from expository and persuasive genres. We are using this resource for corpus-based studies of discourse relations, discourse markers, cohesion, and genre differences. We are also exploring the possibilities of automatic text segmentation and semi-automatic discourse an...