Computational approaches to discourse understanding have a two-part goal: (1) identifying those aspects of discourse understanding that require process-based accounts, and (2) characterizing the processes and data structures they involve. To date, in the area of reference, process-based accounts have been developed for reference via anaphoric pronouns and via definite descriptors. In this paper...

Several studies have employed the theme-rheme construct to examine the generic profile of research articles (RAs). However, they have mostly focused on the subject matter and nature of disciplines, and other disciplinary characteristics as contextual factors which can impact the genre realization have not been considered in the discourse analysis research. This work, therefore, inve...

The importance of a clear conceptual and terminological framework for software process engineering and the shortcomings of previous clari cation attempts are discussed. A rst issue of such a framework is described focusing on the general "universe of discourse", on software process models, on the meta-process which handles software process models, on process-centered software engineering enviro...

A well modeled discourse is the fundamental work of building a dialogue system within a problem domain. The detail of the modeling process could be different from domain to domain. Many researchers have identified different dimensions to model the discourse structures in their own domains. Nevertheless, like most of the software engineering issues, even though the detail process could be domain...

Chinese discourse coherence modeling remains a challenge taskin Natural Language Processing field.Existing approaches mostlyfocus on the need for feature engineering, whichadoptthe sophisticated features to capture the logic or syntactic or semantic relationships acrosssentences within a text.In this paper, we present an entity-drivenrecursive deep modelfor the Chinese discourse coherence evalu...

The use of model such as LEL (Lexicon Extended Language) in natural language is very interesting in Requirements Engineering. But LEL, even if it is derived from the Universe of Discourse (UofD) does not provide further details on the concepts it describes. However, we believe that the elements inherent in the conceptual level of a system are already defined in the Universe of Discourse. Theref...

The compositionality of meaning extends beyond the single sentence. Just as words combine to form the meaning of sentences, so do sentences combine to form the meaning of paragraphs, dialogues and general discourse. We introduce both a sentence model and a discourse model corresponding to the two levels of compositionality. The sentence model adopts convolution as the central operation for comp...

Although overlap between specifications – that is the incorporation of elements which designate common features of the domain of discourse – is a prerequisite for specification inconsistency, it has only been a side concern in requirements engineering research. This paper discusses overlap, points out the factors which complicate identification of overlap, and outlines the key components of a p...

This paper will describe a process of ‘pragmatic annotation’ (c.f. Simpson-Vlach and Leicher 2006) which systematically identifies pragmatic meaning in spoken text. The annotation of stretches of text that perform particular pragmatic functions allows conclusions to be drawn across data sets at a different level than that of the individual lexical item, or structural content. The annotation of ...