From a discourse perspective, utterances may vary in at least two important respects: (i) they can occupy a different hierarchical position in a larger-scale information unit and (ii) they can represent different types of speech acts. Spoken language systems will improve if they adequately take into account both discourse segmentation and utterance purpose. An important question then is how suc...

The aim of this work is to analyse how Spanish readers react to English discourse markers in a text. We carry out an empirical study in which we ask three research question: (a) if there is any relationship between presence of discourse markers or absence of discourse markers and reading comprehension in English as a foreign language, (b) if there is any relationship between the readers’ profic...

How major events are constructed in public discourse continues to be a topic of interest across disciplines. Particularly large-scale transformations such as industrialization, the emergence of capitalism, democratization, or globalization are marked by discursive struggles over their social and cultural impacts, and the outcome of these struggles may facilitate or impede the transformations’wi...

A growing interest in the study of discourses has spread management research, but so far, it mostly relied on in-depth qualitative analyses textual material. With increasing availability large data, several challenges arise. This paper offers a mixed-methods approach to integrate critical discourse analysis with structural topic modeling turn these into valuable opportunities. We argue that com...

The analysis of discourse is the study of language in communication. Such a study involves contextual considerations and so it necessarily belongs to that area of linguistics called pragmatics. Pragmatics is concerned with the threetermed relation which unites linguistic forms and the communicative functions; these forms are capable of serving with the contexts or settings in which given lingui...

We present our approach to the CL-SciSumm 2016 shared task. We propose a technique to determine the discourse role of a sentence. We differentiate between words linked to the topic of the paper and the ones that link to the facet of the scientific discourse. Using that information, histograms are built over the training data to infer a facet for each sentence of the paper (result, method, aim, ...

We present our solution to the 2014 Biomedical Summerization Track. We propose a technique to determine the discourse role of a sentence. We differentiate words linked to the topic of the paper from the ones that link to the facet of the scientific discourse. Using that information, simple histograms are built over training data to infer a facet for each sentence of the paper (result, method, i...