We introduce a simple and effective method to learn discourse-specific word embeddings (DSWE) for implicit discourse relation recognition. Specifically, DSWE is learned by performing connective classification on massive explicit discourse data, and capable of capturing discourse relationships between words. On the PDTB data set, using DSWE as features achieves significant improvements over base...

The goal of the project is to model the prosodic structuring of speech in terms of boundaries and groupings. The modeling will include different communicative situations and be based on existing as well as new speech corpora. Production and perception studies will be used in parallel with automatic methods developed for analysis, modeling and prediction of prosody. The model will be perceptuall...

It is sometimes claimed (cf. that discourse has a tree structure which reeects the semantic structure of discourse. In this paper, I argue that this claim is problematic in cases of discourse multiple dependencies i.e. cases where one discourse segment is semantically related to two discourse segments. I develop a discourse framework which is based on Scha/Polanyi 1988] but integrates ideas fro...

While this era of digital technology brings great possibilities for improving the lives of many people with digital healthcare services, the design of these services in turn present challenges that are ethical in nature. Participatory Design (PD) values user involvement in design from a democratic, empowerment and ethical perspective. However, the design of digital healthcare services constitut...

We often use analogies in strategic discourse to invite inferences about ambiguous situations that reinforce our own construal of these situations. By providing presumptive analogs, we control how audiences define and categorize these situations (Pratkanis & Aronson, 1992). For example, in the short-lived political debate preceding the American invasions of Iraq, supporters of U.S. involvement ...

OBJECTIVE To know the strategies of resistance adopted by nursing staff, facing situations of moral distress, from an ethical perspective. METHOD The authors conducted qualitative research through semi-structured interviews, with fifteen nursing staff members of a university hospital in the extreme south of Brazil, using textual discourse analysis and the theoretical reference of Foucault. ...

Abstract The aim of the article is to present a study literary text from discursive perspective focusing on development discourse competence in English language. It new approach EFL methodology which highlights relation between holistic understanding comunication, social phenomena and language structures their use. European educational policies favour as key factor boosting students' communicat...

Not much is known about the linguistic resources other than discourse connectors for signalling coherence relations. We present here non discourse connector resources for marking coherence relations, namely “discourse verbs” and “discourse prepositions”. “Discourse verbs” are verbs such as precede or cause which take as arguments eventualities or facts. They enter into competition with discours...