The purpose of the study reported in this paper is to investigate how local focusing structure, analysed in terms of Centering Theory (Grosz, Joshi & Weinstein, 1995), and global d iscourse structure, analysed in terms of discourse segments and discourse segment purposes (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), interact. Swedish dialogue was analysed according to Centering Theory and Grosz and Sidners (1986) di...

This paper proposes a computational system of narrative discourse generation and its implementation. In the system, Genette’s discourse theory is reconstructed as discourse techniques which transform the tree structure for a story into discourse structures. Also, we introduce Jauss’s reception theory to construct the control mechanism, which continues discourse generation through generation cyc...

We introduce a new type of discourse constraints for the interaction of discourse relations with the configuration of discourse segments. We examine corpus-extracted examples as soft constraints. We show how to use Regular Tree Gramamrs to process such constraints, and how the representation of some constraints depends on the expressive power of this formalism.

The large-scale adoption of computer mediated communication technologies has resulted in what has been described as “mass interaction”, shared discourse between hundreds, thousands or more individuals. The emergence of mass interaction presents new opportunities to learn about and understand human communication, and information technologies. A number of theoretical papers suggest that the forms...

5.1 SOME DEFINITIONS...........................................................................................................................................7 5.2 A PUNCTUATED DISCOURSE MODEL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS .............................7 5.3 TIME STRUCTURE OF PUNCTUATED DISCOURSE ..........................................................................................9 5...

ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to study interaction patterns among the members of a community of practice within the Dutch police organization and the way they share and construct knowledge together. The online discourse between 46 members, using First Class, formed the basis for this study. Social Network Analysis and content analysis were used to analyze the data. The results show that the...

As an area of classroom research, Interaction Analysis developed from the need and desire to investigate the process of classroom teaching and learning in terms of action-reaction between individuals and their socio-cultural context (Biddle, 1967). However, sole reliance on quantitative techniques could be problematic, since they conceal more than they reveal of the intricacies of classroom int...

The model presented here for parsing spoken German o ers a way to proceed incrementally discontinuous constructions. Typical constructions in task oriented dialogs are Extrapositions to the right. These are dened as syntactical constructions where a constituent is extraposed in the Nachfeld. Basing on the assumption that the extraposed constituent is not part of the source sentence the model wo...

media can be a good representation of dominant ideologies in society. the analysis of such discourse can shed light on the mental and social structures of people in society. adopting van dijk’s (1995) layout of discourse ideology and his (2000) practical and general outline of ideological analysis, this study analyzes the iranian movie a separation, the winner of the 84th annual academy award f...