PPT-Discourse Structure and Discourse Coherence

Julia Hirschberg CS 4705 Thanks to Dan Jurafsky Diane Litman Andy Kehler Jim Martin What makes a text or dialogue coherent Consider for example the difference between passages 1871 and 1872 Almost certainly not The reason is that these utterances when juxtaposed will not exhibit coherence Do you have a discourse Assume that you have collected an arbitrary set of wellformed and independently interpretable utterances for instance by randomly selecting one sentence from each of the previous chapters of this book . Studi Umanistici. Corso di Laurea in . Lingue e Comunicazione. Lingua . Inglese. The . language. of . written. . advertisements. . . . Luisanna Fodde. . a.a.. 2014/2015. Discourse. Key Definitions. discourse analysis – the study of how features of written/spoken texts illustrate or enact their context and purpose. discourse structure – the way texts are organised into coherent wholes as well as linguistic patterns within texts.. Discourse Markers. Chapter 4.3.6. Overview. This presentation gives a small introduction to the topic of discourse markers and a few examples in both ASL and English.. It also includes a few markers that are borrowed from ASL but used more commonly in TASL (or with deaf people who have very limited vision).. AND . VOCABULARY. Bring. a . discourse. . dimention. . to. . teach. . vocabulary. Not . abandoning. . vocabulary. . teaching. , . instead. . offering. a . supplement. . to. . conventional. Discourse, genre and discourse type. Definitions of discourse. The literature provides . many different . definitions of “discourse” (see . Jaworski. and . Coupland. 1-37 for an overview). In reality they have more overlap than would appear at first sight.. IT IS ALWAYS BE A BIG QUESTION.. What is discourse?. THE FIRST THING TO KNOW IS . SCHRIFFIN ET AL (2003) NOTE THAT THERE ARE “THREE MAIN CATEGORIES” OF DISCOURSE DEFINITION . ANYTHING BEYOND THE SENTENCE;. Supervision & Discourse. Ling573. Systems & Applications. April . 14, . 2016. Roadmap. Content selection. Supervised content selection. Analysis & Regression with rich . features. “CLASSY”: HMM methods . Topic-orientation. Ling 573 . Systems & Applications. April 19, 2016. TAC 2010 Results. For context:. LEAD baseline: first 100 words of chron. last article. System. ROUGE-2. LEAD baseline. 0.05376. , Texture . AND TEXTUALITY. LM116/17 (Boyd). 27 October 2016. what is (a) text?. TEXT. is . an . actual instance of language in use (Fairclough) or discourse. , or, more generally, any stretch of language, either spoken or written, that forms a unified whole. . Free . Write. Look out on the . UCWbL. physical space or think . about the . UCWbL’s. physical spaces. . . What comes to mind; what do you think of/about?. What . feelings do you have? . Describe . Wei . Guo. Overview. Background. Discourse Parser. Discourse Analysis. Existing Visualization Methods. DAViewer. Interface. Methodology. Use case scenarios. Background. discourse . parser:. a natural language processing system which can represent the organization of a document . professional identity . and values of journalism students, practicing journalists . and . industry. . Presentation by. Sally Reardon. University of the . West of England. Sally2.reardon@uwe.ac.uk. LearningForAll2017. continuous stretch of language larger than . a sentence. , often constituting a coherent unit. , such . as sermon, argument, joke or narrative. .”. (. Crystal:1992). “stretches . of language perceived to be meaningful, .  . Andrew Potter. Department of Computer . Science & Information . Systems. University of North Alabama. Florence, Alabama, USA. apotter1@una.edu.  . Attribution. A relation . B. etween . a statement or belief .