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Jingfeng Yang, Sujian Li
Discourse segmentation aims to segment Elementary Discourse Units (EDUs) and is a fundamental task in discourse analysis. For Chinese, previous researches identify EDUs just through discriminating the functions of punctuations. In this paper, we argue that Chinese EDUs may not end at the punctuation positions and…
S. Magalí López Cortez, Cassandra L. Jacobs
Time pressure and topic negotiation may impose constraints on how people leverage discourse relations (DRs) in spontaneous conversational contexts. In this work, we adapt a system of DRs for written language to spontaneous dialogue using crowdsourced annotations from novice annotators. We then test whether discourse…
Sara Shahmohammadi, Hadi Veisi, Ali Darzi
Over the past years, interest in discourse analysis and discourse parsing has steadily grown, and many discourse-annotated corpora and, as a result, discourse parsers have been built. In this paper, we present a discourse-annotated corpus for the Persian language built in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory as…
S. Magalí López Cortez, Cassandra L. Jacobs
Annotation of discourse relations is a known difficult task, especially for non-expert annotators. In this paper, we investigate novice annotators' uncertainty on the annotation of discourse relations on spoken conversational data. We find that dialogue context (single turn, pair of turns within speaker, and pair of…
Aitziber Atutxa, Kepa Bengoetxea, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Mikel Iruskieta + 1 more
'Mikel Iruskieta' 'Harald Baayen'] Lately, discourse structure has received considerable attention due to the benefits its application offers in several NLP tasks such as opinion mining, summarization, question answering, text simplification, among others. When automatically analyzing texts, discourse parsers typically…
Chloé Braud, Ophélie Lacroix, Anders Søgaard
Discourse segmentation is a crucial step in building end-to-end discourse parsers. However, discourse segmenters only exist for a few languages and domains. Typically they only detect intra-sentential segment boundaries, assuming gold standard sentence and token segmentation, and relying on high-quality syntactic…
Yingxue Fu
Discourse information is difficult to represent and annotate. Among the major frameworks for annotating discourse information, RST, PDTB and SDRT are widely discussed and used, each having its own theoretical foundation and focus. Corpora annotated under different frameworks vary considerably. To make better use of the…
Maya Inbar, Eitan Grossman, Ayelet N. Landau
Intonation units (IUs) are a universal building-block of human speech. They are found cross-linguistically and are tied to important language functions such as the pacing of information in discourse and swift turn-taking. We study the rate of IUs in 48 languages from every continent and from 27 distinct language…
Parminder Bhatia, Yangfeng Ji, Jacob Eisenstein
Discourse structure is the hidden link between surface features and document-level properties, such as sentiment polarity. We show that the discourse analyses produced by Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) parsers can improve document-level sentiment analysis, via composition of local information up the discourse tree.…
Rintaro Imafuku, Takuya Saiki, Robyn Woodward-Kron
Introduction Viewed broadly, discourse analysis is the study of ways in which naturally occurring language is used between people, both in written and spoken contexts. In a learning context, discourse analysis of written and spoken texts is useful for making visible how educators, learners, and others engage in an…
Zhong Yang, Chao Jiang, Wei Xu, Junyi Jessy Li
This paper presents a data-driven study focusing on analyzing and predicting sentence deletion — a prevalent but understudied phenomenon in document simplification — on a large English text simplification corpus. We inspect various document and discourse factors associated with sentence deletion, using a new manually…
Hale Ögel-Balaban, Ayhan Aksu-Koç
The present study examines the development of complex sentences with non-finite clause combining with particular focus on clause chaining, in narratives of 40 Turkish-speaking 4- to 11-year-olds and six adults elicited by a wordless picture book. Results show a gradual increase by age in the variety of clauses…
Melvin Yin, Alexander Goncearenco, Igor N. Berezovsky
The rational design of proteins with desired functions requires a comprehensive description of the functional building blocks. The evolutionary conserved functional units constitute nature's toolbox; however, they are not readily available to protein designers. This study focuses on protein units of subdomain size that…
Lucy Dipper, Jane Marshall, Mary Boyle, Deborah Hersh + 3 more
'Nicola Botting' 'Madeline Cruice' 'Paola Marangolo'] Discourse (a unit of language longer than a single sentence) is fundamental to everyday communication. People with aphasia (a language impairment occurring most frequently after stroke, or other brain damage) have communication difficulties which lead to less…
Arnold Kochari, Ashley Lewis, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Herbert Schriefers
The possibility to combine smaller units of meaning (e.g., words) to create new and more complex meanings (e.g., phrases and sentences) is a fundamental feature of human language. In the present project, we investigated semantic and syntactic composition of two-word adjective-noun phrases by the brain in Dutch, using…
Mengmin Xu, Yan Ren
Building upon foundational psychological theories of event segmentation, this study addresses the limitation of overreliance on temporal boundaries as the primary segmentation criterion. Drawing on two experiments of direct and indirect causation in Mandarin Chinese, this study demonstrates how cognitive segmentation…
Maxime Tulling, Ryan Law, Ailís Cournane, Liina Pylkkänen
A hallmark of human thought is the ability to think about not just the actual world, but also about alternative ways the world could be. One way to study this contrast is through language. Language has grammatical devices for expressing possibilities and necessities, such as the words might or must. With these devices…
Cas W. Coopmans, Mante S. Nieuwland
A key challenge in understanding stories and conversations is the comprehension of ‘anaphora’, words that refer back to previously mentioned words or concepts (‘antecedents’). In psycholinguistic theories, anaphor comprehension involves the initial activation of the antecedent and its subsequent integration into the…