What is a Community Web ? n A group of people sharing a domain of discourse and a set of information

This paper is concerned with a hierarchical representation of the convex relation algebra, which is a computationally tractable subset of Allen’s interval calculus [1, 11]. The hierarchy of convex relations is used to determine the minimal point relation constraints which hold between the end points of the intervals. Nine convex relations are proven to be special, because they introduce new con...

A corpus of spontaneous route descriptions was collected from 8 speakers (5 males and 3 females). The corpus was labelled according to the ToBI standard and a discourse analysis was completed. Four discourse tour acts were identified and these were found to occur mainly in non-embedded linear sequences. In general, the intonation of each route description was characterised by a single intonatio...

The paper introduces a possibility of new research offered by a multi-dimensional annotation of the Prague Dependency Treebank. It focuses on exploitation of the annotation of coreference for the annotation of discourse relations expressed by multiword expressions. It tries to find which aspect interlinks these linguistic areas and how we can use this interplay in automatic searching for Czech ...

In previous work, we presented a preliminary study to identify paraphrases between technical and lay discourse types from medical corpora dedicated to the French language. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the same kinds of paraphrases as for French can be detected between English technical and lay discourse types and report the adaptation of our method from French to English. Starting...

The idea of contrast plays an important role in the analysis of information structure and discourse structure. In the literature on information structure, we encounter the concept of contrastive focus and of contrastive topic, and there is also the opinion that focus in general establishes a contrast. In the literature on discourse structure, it is commonly held that there is a discourse relati...

In Chinese, there are clear embodiments of gendered discourse pattern. Based on the concrete embodiments of gendered discourse pattern in Chinese, this paper will discuss about some specific examples. Then the reasons of forming the Chinese gendered discourse pattern will be illustrated. Lastly the paper will summarize the cognitive interpretation of Chinese gendered discourse pattern.

for valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper. We are especially grateful to Richard Oehrle for his detailed comments which led to a number of significant improvements.