[PDF] Top 20 A Syntactic Approach to Discourse Semantics

... Such an analysis is also necessary to assign a correct semantic interpretation to clauses as they occur in the discourse; this is seen most easily in cases where this interpretation depe[r] ... See full document

... Author profiling and author identification are two tasks in the context of the automatic derivation of author-related information from textual material. In the case of author profiling, demographic author information ... See full document

... The related work on NF QA is considerably more scarce, but several trends are clear. First, most NF QA approaches tend to use multiple sim- ilarity models (information retrieval or alignment) as features in ... See full document

... The structural difference between bare NP subjects and bare NP objects correctly predicts the high occurrence rate of bare NPs in complement positions. Given that the bare NP in a complement position can freely occur as ... See full document

... Vocabulary Construction After generating all se- mantic units for (augmented and compounded) se- mantic frames and discourse markers, we merge them together as a tentative vocabulary. In order to generate a ... See full document

... Why this task is difficult: Since the data is of legal domain, it might require an understanding of law to analyze it: A traditional approach such as training neural network, or the more intuitive semantic ... See full document

... general, question and exclamative marks are used to modify the prosody of the previous word. We use the word “expressivity” in a specific general manner which includes sensible and sensitive reading that can only be ... See full document

... compositional semantics works, we need to have the syntax of a small fragment of English at our ...matters syntactic except inasfar as they effect the interpretability of the input to the semantic ...the ... See full document

... I investigate Russian second language read- ability assessment using a machine-learning approach with a range of lexical, morpholog- ical, syntactic, and discourse features. Test- ing the model with ... See full document

... Although distributional information is often used for smoothing, to our knowledge there is little work on smoothing distributional models them- selves. We see two main precursor studies for our work. Bergsma et al. ... See full document

... a syntactic decision about which events fall within the scope of a time ex- ...This approach reduces the number of fuzzy temporal relations that an- notators might disagree on due to preference for ... See full document

... of discourse semantics in principle gen- erate all interpretations of discourse frag- ments and carry these until contradicted, and thus the dissonance criteria in humour cannot be ...a ... See full document

... High-dimensional distributed semantic spaces have proven useful and effective for aggregating and processing visual, auditory, and lexical information for many tasks related to human-generated data. The model proposed ... See full document

... roles) are like arguments. Thus, a semantic frame can apply to semantic categories if these semantic categories are consistent with the semantic frame. In other words, whether a sentence is acceptable depends basically ... See full document

... dataset (Marelli et al., 2014) was created to better benchmark the effectiveness of different models across a broad range of challenging lexical, syn- tactic, and semantic phenomena, in terms of both similarities and the ... See full document

... first discourse segment ...in discourse not necessarily represents linear temporal order (“before” ...Penn Discourse Treebank contains a total of only 151 implicit relation instances of the ... See full document

... A Head Driven Approach to Incremental and Parallel Generation of Syntactic Structures A Head Driven Approach to Incremental and Parallel Generation of Syntactic Structures Giinter Neumann Institute fo[.] ... See full document

... In this paper, we present a complete discourse parser. Based on these previous works and through continuous improvement, our system has achieved good results. According to the official evaluation of CoNLL-2016 ... See full document

... tics and a few semantic features obtained from the Boxer tool. The core idea is using syntactic and semantic features for classification and labelling. However, we were not able to get better results with the ... See full document

... their syntactic territory and ...complex syntactic devices, which are the components of each text, are surrounded by a single semantic ...independent syntactic devices contained in the text ... See full document