Indexter is a plan-based computational model of narrative discourse which leverages cognitive scientific theories of how events are stored in memory during online comprehension. These discourse models are valuable for static and interactive narrative generation systems because they allow the author to reason about the audience’s understanding and attention as they experience a story. A pair of ...

We discuss ways of improving navigation facilities in hypertext systems, considering theoretical and implementation issues, from a natural language processing research perspective. The key claim is that certain ideas from the theory of discourse structure can be exploited to improve the context-sensitivity of navigation facilities. In particular, (i) after a node is reached by a jump, links to ...

Indexter is a plan-based computational model of narrative discourse which leverages cognitive scientific theories of how events are stored in memory during online comprehension. These discourse models are valuable for static and interactive narrative generation systems because they allow the author to reason about the audience’s understanding and attention as they experience a story. A pair of ...

The official submission for CL Research's question-answering system (DIMAP-QA) for TREC-11 only slightly extends its semantic relation triple (logical form) technology in which documents are fully parsed and databases built around discourse entities. We were unable to complete the planned revision of our system based on a fuller discourse analysis of the texts. We have since implemented many of...

background considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (tbi) should face difficulties in this task. therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from tbi. among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...

This paper describes current and planned research efforts towards developing multimodal discourse understanding for an automated personal office assistant. The research is undertaken as part of a project called The Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes (CALO) (see http://www.ai.sri.com/project/CALO). The CALO assistant is intended to aid users both personally and as a group in performing of...

The main objective of the Rhapsodie project (ANR Rhapsodie 07 Corp-030-01) was to define rich, explicit, and reproducible schemes for the annotation of prosody and syntax in different genres (± spontaneous, ± planned, face-to-face interviews vs. broadcast, etc.), in order to study the prosody/syntax/discourse interface in spoken French, and their roles in the segmentation of speech into discour...

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

in this paper attempts have been made to study the discourses dominating political islam to answer these questions: how can one categorize these diverse political islam discourses? what are the similarities and differences among these discourses in general, and with the islamic revolution discourse in particular? the research methodology employed for this study is historical-comparative and the...