This paper describes a method for creating an evaluation measure for discourse understanding in spoken dialogue systems. Discourse understanding means utterance understanding taking the context into account. Since the measure needs to be determined based on its correlation with the system’s performance, conventional measures, such as the concept error rate, cannot be easily applied. Using the m...

Objective: Many studies have suggested that there is a relationship between coherence and cognitive processes. This study aims at investigating this hypothesis through assessing the relationship between cognitive variables and coherence in the discourse of two groups of Persian-speaking younger and older adults. Methods: In order to evaluate our participants' cognitive capabilities, we recrui...

Social media is increasingly being adopted in health discourse. We examine the role played by identity in supporting discourse on socially stigmatized conditions. Specifically, we focus on mental health communities on reddit. We investigate the characteristics of mental health discourse manifested through reddit's characteristic 'throwaway' accounts, which are used as proxies of anonymity. For ...

Language is contextual and sheaf theory provides a high level mathematical framework to model contextuality. We show how sheaf theory can model the contextual nature of natural language and how gluing can be used to provide a global semantics for a discourse by putting together the local logical semantics of each sentence within the discourse. We introduce a presheaf structure corresponding to ...

In this paper, we describe a system for coreference resolution and emphasize the role of evaluation for its design. The goal of the system is to group referring expressions (identified beforehand in narrative texts) into sets of coreferring expressions that correspond to discourse entities. Several knowledge sources are distinguished, such as referential compatibility between a referring expres...

We prove that if V = L then there is a Π11 maximal orthogonal (i.e. mutually singular) set of measures on Cantor space. This provides a natural counterpoint to the well-known Theorem of Preiss and Rataj [16] that no analytic set of measures can be maximal orthogonal.

For a large family of weights ρ in the unit disc and for fixed 1 < q < p < ∞, we give a characterization of those measures μ such that, for all functions f holomorphic in the unit disc, ‖f‖Lq(μ) ≤ C(μ) (∫ D |(1− |z|)f ′(z)|pρ(z) m(dz) (1− |z|)2 + |f(0)| ) 1 p .

Abstract Objective: Discourse analysis is one of the clinical methods commonly used to assess language ability individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, majority published analytic frameworks are not geared for highlighting pragmatic aspect discourse deficits in acquired disorders, except those designed quantifying conversational samples. This study aimed examine how competence im...

We propose a class of nonparametric two-sample tests with a cost linear in the sample size. Two tests are given, both based on an ensemble of distances between analytic functions representing each of the distributions. The first test uses smoothed empirical characteristic functions to represent the distributions, the second uses distribution embeddings in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Ana...

OBJECTIVE This study analyzes the discourse of some members of the Spanish parliament (MPs) in the 2 years before the Gender Violence Act was passed in 2004 to examine how gender-based violence is construed when legal measures are proposed. METHODS Ten members of six different parties of the Spanish parliament were interviewed between November 2002 and March 2003. Each interview was recorded ...