PPT-Discourse on the Last Days

THE LESSON FIG TREE OF THE From the fig tree learn its lesson as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves you know that summer is near So also when you see these things taking place you know that he is near at the very gates. 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 (18.71) and (18.72). 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 well-formed and independently interpretable utterances, for instance, by randomly selecting one sentence from each of the previous chapters of this book.” . 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;. 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.. ’. The. . limits. of . my. . world. . are. . the. . limits. . of. . my. . language. ’ (Ludwig . Witgenstein. ). Other senses of ‘discourse’. Descartes: . Discourse. . on. . Method. 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. 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. and . M.Spyridakis. , . Spetses. , June 2017 . Discourse . is no longer or solely either the study of linguistic forms or the study of language use.. Discourse . is . rather viewed . as a social . practice referring either to spoken or to written contexts.. 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, .