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Computational Models of Discourse
Spring 2004
Topics
- Introduction
- Topic Segmentation: Agreement, Evaluation, Automatic Text Segmentation
- Topic Segmentation (cont.): Hierarchical Text Segmentation, Meeting Segmentation
- Cohesion and Local Coherence: Lexical Chains, Centering Theory; Applications to Automated Essay Scoring
- Automatic Reference Resolution
- Automatic Reference Resolution and Reference Generation
- Generation of Referring Expressions
- Domain-dependent Models of Text Structure
- Rhetorical Structure Theory Guest Speaker: Florian Wolf
- Discourse Structure in Text Summarization; Alignment
- Temporal Ordering in Discourse
- Prosody and Discourse Guest Speaker: Chao Wang
- Intentions and the Structure of Discourse
- Studies of Dialogues; Taxonomy of Speech Acts
- Automatic Interpretation of Dialogue Acts
- Learning Dialogue Strategies via Reinforcement Learning
- MIT Dialogue Systems
- Dialogue Systems
- Plan Recognition
- Evaluation for Discourse Processing
- Discourse in Psycholinguistics
- TBA
- Project Presentations
Readings
- Webber, Bonnie L. “Computational Perspectives on Discourse and Dialog.” In The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Edited by D. Schiffrin, D. Tannen, and H. E. Hamilton. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2001, pp. 798-817.
- Moore, Johanna D., and Peter Wiemer-Hastings. “Discourse in Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence.” In Handbook of Discourse Processes. Edited by A. G. Graesser, M. A. Gernbacher, and S. R. Goldman. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, pp. 439-487.
- Kintsch, Walter. The representation of meaning in memory . Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1974. ISBN: 0898591309
- Haviland S. E., and H. H. Clark. “What’s new? Acquiring new information as a process in comprehension.” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 13 (1974): 515-521.
- Yaari, Yaacov. “Segmentation of expository texts by hierarchical agglomerative clustering.” Proceedings of the RANLP'97 , 1997.
- van Mulbregt, P., I. Carp, L. Gillick, S. Lowe, and J. Yamron. “Segmentation of Automatically Transcribed Broadcast News Text.” Proceedings of the ICASSP .
- Halliday, Michael, and Ruqaiya Hasan. Cohesion in English . London, UK: Longman Publishing Group, 1976. ISBN: 0582550416.
- Foltz, Peter, Walter Kintsch, and Thomas Landauer. “The Measurement of Textual Coherence with Latent Semantic Analysis.” Discourse Processes 25, no. 2 (1998): 285-307.
- Ng, Vincent. “Machine Learning for Coreference Resolution: Recent Successes and Future Directions.” Technical Report CUL.CIS/TR2003-1918 , Cornell University, 2003.
- Hobbs, Jerry. “Resolving pronoun references. ” Lingua 44 (1978).
- Barzilay, Regina, and Lillian Lee. “Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization.” Proceedings of the NAACL/HLT , 2004 (to appear).
- Mann, William, and Sandra Thompson. “Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization.” Text 8, no. 3 (1988).
- Reichnbach, Hans. The Elements of Symbolic Logic . New York, NY: Macmillan, 1947. ISBN: 048620045.
- Lascarides, Alex, and Nicholas Asher. “Temporal Interpretation, Discourse Relations and Commonsense Entailment.” Linguistics and Philosophy 16, no. 5 (1993).
- Mani, Inderjeet, Barry Schiffman, and Jianping Zhang. “Inferring Temporal ordering of the Events in News.” Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL , 2003.
- Lapata, Mirella, and Alex Lascaridis. “Inferring Sentence Internal Temporal Information.” Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL , 2004.
- Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., and A. Turk. “A prosody tutorial for investigators of auditory sentence processing.” Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 25 (1996): 193-247.
- Levinson, S. Pragmatics . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983. ISBN: 0521294142.
- Sacks, H., E. Schegloff, and G. Jefferson. “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation.” Language 50, no. 4 (1974): 696-735.
- Hirschberg, Julia, and Diane Litman. “Empirical studies on the disambiguation of cue phrases.” Computational Linguistics 19, no. 3 (1993): 501-530.
- Grice, H. P. “Further Notes on Logic and conversation.” In Speech Acts: Syntax and Semantics . Edited by P. Cole. Vol. 9. 1978, pp. 113-127.
- Austin, J. L. How to do Things with Words . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962. ISBN: 0674411528.
- Searle, J. R. Expression and Meaning: Studies in the theory of Speech Acts . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1979. ISBN: 0521229014.
- Walker, M., I. Langkilde, J. Wright, A. Gorin, and D. Litman. “Learning to Predict Problematic Situations in a Spoken Dialogue System: Experiments with How May I Help You?.” Proceedings of NAACL , 2000.
- Goldman, R., C. W. Geib, and C. A. Miller. “A New Model of Plan Recognition.” Proceedings of UAI , 1999.
- Charniak, E., and R.P. Goldman. “A Bayesian model of plan recognition.” Artificial Intelligence 64, no. 1 (1993): 53-79.
- Vilain, M. “Getting serious about parsing plans: A grammatical analysis of plan recognition.” Proceedings of AAAI , 1990, pp. 190-197.
- Kautz, H., and J. Allen. “Generalized plan recognition.” Proceedings of AAAI , 1986, pp. 32-38.
Sources
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