There are two conceivable readings for (1). Either (a) it refers to the party or (b) Peter only disliked the food. Discourse grammars like Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) offer an explanation for this phenomenon. SDRT an extension ofDRT (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) describes a complex propositional structure of Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs) connected via discourse relati...

Introduction: Unsupervised object discovery (UOD) is the task of finding repeating patterns and common visual concepts across an unsorted set of images without any human supervision. These concepts should describe objects, like pedestrians or cars, and stuff, like road or sky. Once discovered, this information opens several interesting applications like summarization and filtering of visual con...

In Canada, obesity is increasingly emphasised as a “risk” to the health of mother and foetus. At a time when pregnant women are under greater pressure to personally uphold the health of their foetus, understanding the impact of the discourse surrounding obesity and health on young pregnant women is critical. Using a feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis, we explore how pregnant young wo...

This paper discusses three potential varieties of update: updates to the common ground, structuring updates, and updates that introduce discourse referents. These different types of update are used to model different aspects of natural language phenomena. Not-at-issue information directly updates the common ground. The illocutionary mood of a sentence structures the context. Other updates intro...

To understand a discourse, the reader needs to recover the relations between the discourse elements as intended by the writer. Writers can, and very often do, help the reader along by providing explicit lexical signals of the intended discourse relations through the use of lexicalised discourse markers. In this paper we present a novel approach for generating texts containing multiple, embedded...

The paper tries to contribute to the general definition of discourse connectives. It examines connectives in broader sense, i.e. all language expressions that have an ability to express discourse relations within a text (e.g. both conjunctions like but, and, or and expressions like the condition for this is, due to this situation etc.). The paper tries to classify connectives from different per...

Human annotation of discourse corpora typically results in segmentation hierarchies that vary in their degree of agreement. This paper presents several techniques for unifying multiple discourse annotations into a single hierarchy, deemed a “gold standard” — the segmentation that best captures the underlying linguistic structure of the discourse. It proposes and analyzes methods that consider t...

DEFINITION 1.1. A fuzzy variable is characterized by a triple (X, U, R (X;u)). in which X is the name of the variable; U is a universe of discourse (finite or infinite set); u is a generic name for the elements of U; and R(X;u) is a fuzzy subset of U which represents a fuzzy restriction on the values of u imposed by X. [As in the case of nonfuzzy variables, R(X;u) will usually be abbreviated to...

Motivation The motivation for this discussion is to look at the cognitive and logical rationales of e-Learning objects, which reside in computer-based e-Learning artefacts. e-Learning objects, the system to which they belong, and the sequence of messages that form a discourse between the system and its environment are inseparable. Altogether, they formulate the “Universe of Discourse” (Wieringa...

The analysis and value of digital evidence in an investigation has been the domain of discourse in the digital forensic community for several years. While many works have considered different approaches to model digital evidence, a comprehensive understanding of the process of merging different evidence items recovered during a forensic analysis is still a distant dream. With the advent of mode...