To date, few attempts have been made to develop new methods and validate existing ones for automatic evaluation of discourse coherence in the noisy domain of learner texts. We present the first systematic analysis of several methods for assessing coherence under the framework of automated assessment (AA) of learner free-text responses. We examine the predictive power of different coherence mode...

Computational aspects of Van der Sandt’s binding and accommodation theory (BAT) for presupposition projection and anaphora resolution are presented and discussed in this article. BAT is reformulated to meet requirements for computational implementation, which include operations on discourse representation structures (renaming and merging), the representation of presuppositions (allowing for sel...

the fundamental role of discourse and its positive and negative effects in personal and social interactions is known to everyone. this is why religions and denominations have always relied on discourse, especially when it is beyond the boundaries of personal concerns and by the expansion of its domain, have stressed on the vital position and particular role of discourse in the fate of humanity....

We show in this paper how the computer science concept of ’continuations’, together with categorial grammars and a type shifting mechanism, is able to account for a wide range of natural language semantic phenomena, such as hierarchical discourse structure, ellipses, accommodation and free-focus and bound-focus anaphora. The merit of continuations in the dynamic semantics framework is that they...

In direct face-to-face communication, we use a variety of different means of expression with different degrees of consciousness and intentionality (Allwood 1976). Communication is multimodal and embodied. In parallel to verbally formulating our conscious message, we also convey information with our voice, mimics, gaze, gestures and body posture. The aim of this paper is to analyse the use of sp...

This article reviews the analysis of narrativized discourse (ND) – starting from a corpus contemporary detective novels written by author Dominique Manotti –, according to theoretical framework represented discourses which is based on speaker/enunciator disjunction and consideration textual (inter)actional dimensions enunciative phenomena. The ND redefined as (NRD) because discourse, attributed...

The present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin Persian. To do so, 195 male and female native Persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item Discourse Completion Task (DCT) to elicit the speech act of offer. Thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

This study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by Iranian nonnative speakers (NNSs) of English and Canadian native speakers (NSs) of English to find out the (possible) similarities and/or differences between the request realizations, and to investigate the influence of the situational variables of power, distance, context familiarity, and L1’s (possible) influence. ...