Making Sense Of Discourse On Discourse Segmentation And The Linguistic Marking Of Coherence Relations

Author : Jet Hoek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9460932940

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Making Sense of Discourse. On Discourse Segmentation and the Linguistic Marking of Coherence Relations by Jet Hoek Pdf

When people read or listen to a discourse, they will try to make sense of it. To fully understand a discourse, it is essential not only to know the meaning of each individual clause, but also to figure out how all clauses are related to each other. If all goes well, language users end up with an accurate representation of the discourse. An important aspect of building a mental representation of a discourse is inferring coherence relations between discourse segments. When inferring coherence relations, language users have to deduce whether two or more chunks of text constitute, for instance, a cause-consequence relation, a rule and an exception, alternatives, etc. Coherence relations can be explicitly marked by a connective (e.g., because, although) or a cue phrase (e.g., except for the fact that, by comparison), but this need not be the case; in many instances, coherence relations have to be established without the instructions connectives provide or, in the case of underspecified connectives, with only limited instructions.00This dissertation investigates both discourse segmentation and the linguistic marking of coherence relations. Using a combination of theoretical exploration, parallel corpus studies, and experimental methods, it provides new insights into how and why coherence relations are explicitly signaled and between which parts of a text people infer coherence relations.In addition, it contributes toward refining discourse segmentation and annotation guidelines, both of which are important methodological tools in the research of discourse coherence.0.

Author : Óscar Loureda,Inés Recio Fernández,Laura Nadal,Adriana Cruz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262264

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Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse by Óscar Loureda,Inés Recio Fernández,Laura Nadal,Adriana Cruz Pdf

This volume assembles eleven articles addressing current concerns in discourse studies from an empirical perspective. Engaging with highly topical issues, they indicate the potential of an approach to the construction of discourse via corpus-based analysis, experimentation, or combined methodologies. The subject matters of the contributions, delivered by renowned scholars and dealing with either one or several languages, range from mechanisms through which information structure, connection and discourse organization are realized, to prosody as a determinant of hierarchy and specific functions of discourse markers, as well as innovative tools for visualizing discourse structure. The resulting volume addresses scholars working in a variety of topics, who either wish to incorporate empirical methods to their research or whose work is already empirically oriented and wish to gain insight into empirical evidence on state-of-the-art discursive phenomena.

Author : P. Bourgonje
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781643681931

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Shallow Discourse Parsing for German by P. Bourgonje Pdf

The last few decades have seen impressive improvements in several areas of Natural Language Processing. Nevertheless, getting a computer to make sense of the discourse of utterances in a text remains challenging. Several different theories which aim to describe and analyze the coherent structure of a well-written text exist, but with varying degrees of applicability and feasibility for practical use. This book is about shallow discourse parsing, following the paradigm of the Penn Discourse TreeBank, a corpus containing over 1 million words annotated for discourse relations. When it comes to discourse processing, any language other than English must be considered a low-resource language. This book relates to discourse parsing for German. The limited availability of annotated data for German means that the potential of modern, deep-learning-based methods relying on such data is also limited. This book explores to what extent machine-learning and more recent deep-learning-based methods can be combined with traditional, linguistic feature engineering to improve performance for the discourse parsing task. The end-to-end shallow discourse parser for German developed for the purpose of this book is open-source and available online. Work has also been carried out on several connective lexicons in different languages. Strategies are discussed for creating or further developing such lexicons for a given language, as are suggestions on how to further increase their usefulness for shallow discourse parsing. The book will be of interest to all whose work involves Natural Language Processing, particularly in languages other than English.

Author : Helmut Gruber,Gisela Redeker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269232

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The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence by Helmut Gruber,Gisela Redeker Pdf

Over the past four decades, discourse coherence has been studied from linguistic, psycholinguistic, computational, and applied perspectives. This volume identifies current issues and under-researched topics in the pragmatics of discourse coherence. Nine studies from various disciplines address the realization and signalling of coherence relations in various genres and languages, their acquisition and use by first- and second-language learners and university students, the relationship between coherence relations and genre-specific discourse structure, and extensions of the coherence paradigm to multimodal discourse and visual art. This collection will be of interest to researchers from linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication, and multimodal semiotics.

Author : Judith Maria Helena Kamalski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cohesion (Linguistics)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122440816

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Coherence Marking, Comprehension and Persuasion by Judith Maria Helena Kamalski Pdf

Author : C. Unger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230288201

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Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence by C. Unger Pdf

This book seeks to explain how discourse types influence the addressee's understanding of the communicator's intention. Examining global coherence-based accounts as well as proposals based on Gricean pragmatics, it argues that the key to a solution lies in the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance proposed by Sperber & Wilson.

Author : Jan Renkema
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027232663

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The Texture of Discourse by Jan Renkema Pdf

The aim of this monograph is to give impetus to research into one of the central questions in discourse studies: what makes a sequence of sentences or utterances a discourse? The theoretical framework for describing the possibilities of discourse continuation is delineated by two principles: the discursive and the dialogic principle. The chord of discourse is unfolded in a tripartite wire: Conjunction, Adjunction and Interjunction, each containing three aspects, leading to a Connectivity Model. This new three-by-three taxonomy of discourse relations incorporates findings from several theories and approaches that have evolved over the last three decades, including Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetorical Structure Theory. In comparing this model to other models, this book presents a state-of-the-art of discourse relation analysis combined with detailed accounts of many examples. This monograph furthermore proposes a new way of presenting discourse structures in connectivity graphs followed by eleven commandments for the segmentation and labeling of discourse, and three procedures for disambiguation if more labels are applicable. This study can provide a base for corpus linguistic analysis on discourse structures, computational approaches to discourse generation and cognitive experimental research of discourse competence."

Author : Cristina Grisot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319967523

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Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective by Cristina Grisot Pdf

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to the cognitive temporal coherence of the mental representations built in the language comprehension process. As such, it investigates the phenomenon of temporal reference at the interface between corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics and pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, natural language processing and machine translation.

Author : Manfred Stede
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031021442

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Discourse Processing by Manfred Stede Pdf

Discourse Processing here is framed as marking up a text with structural descriptions on several levels, which can serve to support many language-processing or text-mining tasks. We first explore some ways of assigning structure on the document level: the logical document structure as determined by the layout of the text, its genre-specific content structure, and its breakdown into topical segments. Then the focus moves to phenomena of local coherence. We introduce the problem of coreference and look at methods for building chains of coreferring entities in the text. Next, the notion of coherence relation is introduced as the second important factor of local coherence. We study the role of connectives and other means of signaling such relations in text, and then return to the level of larger textual units, where tree or graph structures can be ascribed by recursively assigning coherence relations. Taken together, these descriptions can inform text summarization, information extraction, discourse-aware sentiment analysis, question answering, and the like. Table of Contents: Introduction / Large Discourse Units and Topics / Coreference Resolution / Small Discourse Units and Coherence Relations / Summary: Text Structure on Multiple Interacting Levels

Author : Timothy Koschmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135489090

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Meaning Making by Timothy Koschmann Pdf

This special issue focuses on the difficult problem of how observers and researchers can make sense of how collaborating participants develop a shared understanding both of their task and their own participation in it. Or stated in another way, how can we derive meaning from their emergent and situated meaning making? Meaning making has been studied under a variety of names, and can be conceptualized on different levels of abstraction and from a variety of perspectives. The goal is to attempt to tease apart some of these views, while at the same time seeking means to bring them together in order to provide a more fully elaborated picture. This issue comes with downloadable resources containing the brief video segment which all authors analyzed in the preparation of their contributions.

Author : Marilyn A. Walker,Aravind Krishna Joshi,Ellen Friedman Prince
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198236875

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Centering Theory in Discourse by Marilyn A. Walker,Aravind Krishna Joshi,Ellen Friedman Prince Pdf

This edited collection of previously unpublished papers focuses on Centering Theory, an account of local discourse structure. Developed in the context of computational linguistics and cognitive science, Centering theory has attracted the attention of an international interdisciplinary audience. As the authors focus on naturally occurring data, they join the general trend towards empiricism in research on computational models of discourse, providing a significant contribution to a fast-moving field.

Author : Anna Cermakova,Hilde Hasselgård,Markéta Malá,Denisa Šebestová
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350385955

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Contrastive Corpus Linguistics by Anna Cermakova,Hilde Hasselgård,Markéta Malá,Denisa Šebestová Pdf

Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its development over time and expanding the boundaries of the discipline. Focusing on a diversity of methods and approaches to language comparison, it uses both comparable and translation corpora, and explores a broad range of language registers from newspaper reporting and spoken political discourse to film scripts and football match reports. Using English as the pivot language for each chapter, the volume offers contrastive bilingual and trilingual perspectives on a number of languages, including Czech, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish, covering a typologically diverse field. By exploring the application of complex multi-genre multilingual data sets and expanding the horizons of contrastive studies, it demonstrates how a juxtaposition of cross-linguistic and register variation can deepen our insight into language variation and use. The volume is dedicated to two prominent contrastive corpus linguists: Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg, who have decisively shaped the discipline from its very beginnings. The book opens with a chapter by Aijmer, reflecting on the current breadth and future prospects of research in the area while pointing to emergent trends with an insight that only she can offer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004436725

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Information Structuring in Discourse by Anonim Pdf

This collection presents current work on discourse structuring from a theoretical as well as a processing perspective. The main objectives are the investigation of appropriate levels of analysis for discourse segmentation and criteria for the identification of basic discourse units.

Author : James Clackson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444343373

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A Companion to the Latin Language by James Clackson Pdf

A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage. Brings together contributions from internationally renowned classicists, linguists and Latin language specialists Offers, in a single volume, a detailed account of different literary registers of the Latin language Explores the social and political contexts of Latin Includes new accounts of the Latin language in light of modern linguistic theory Supplemented with illustrations covering the development of the Latin alphabet

Author : Sandrine Zufferey,Liesbeth Degand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108832991

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Connectives and Discourse Relations by Sandrine Zufferey,Liesbeth Degand Pdf

Provides a cutting-edge yet accessible introduction to connectives and discourse relations, with examples from a range of languages.