This paper proposes a new framework for discourse analysis, in the spirit of Grosz and Sid-ner (1986), Webber (1987a,b) but differentiated with respect to the type or genre of discourse. It is argued that different genres call for different representations and processing strategies; particularly important is the distinction between subjective, pefformative discourse and objective discourse, of ...

To date, virtually no studies have examined toddlers' non-response in developmental tasks. This study investigates data from 3667 toddlers to address (1) whether two aspects of (completion and engagement) are separable, (2) how stable these ages three, (3) relates background characteristics, (4) at three predicts early academic skills age six. Structural equation modelling shows that completion...

Controlled Language checking has traditionally been applied largely on a sentence level by placing restrictions on permissible vocabulary and permissible syntactic constructions, including proper punctuation. Only little attention has been paid to document or discourse level checking. In this paper, we report on work on EasyEnglishAnalyzer to handle certain discourse and document level checks. ...

We present results of a series of machine learning experiments that address the classification of the discourse function of single affirmative cue words such as alright, okay and mm-hm in a spoken dialogue corpus. We suggest that a simple discourse/sentential distinction is not sufficient for such words and propose two additional classification sub-tasks: identifying (a) whether such words conv...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 2School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, ShiZi Road, Suzhou, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Background: How to build a suitable discourse topic structure is an important issue in discourse topic analysis, which is the core of natural language understanding. Not only is it the key ba...

The article demonstrates management discourse without masculine subtexts. In two organizations in the Norwegian state administration management was talked about either as a truly gender neutral activity or as a “feminine” activity. Managers’ primary tasks were to motivate team members and help them develop their capacities, it was stated. Further, team management was described either by the use...


 This study examines the cognitive information processes that Turkish advanced non-native speakers of English employ in assigning referents this and reading production. We predicted these would assign relation to linear distance between discourse-linked anaphors their discourse (i.e., based on spatial-temporal features that), which means they prefer for a referent mentioned proximal chunk...

Discourse structures have a central role in several computational tasks, such as question–answering or dialogue generation. In particular, the framework of the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) offers a sound formalism for hierarchical text organization. In this article, we present HILDA, an implemented discourse parser based on RST and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification. SVM classifie...