6 articles in this issue
Iulian Vlad Serban,Ryan Lowe,Peter Henderson,Laurent Charlin,Joelle Pineau
During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of dialogue systems, the trend is less obvious, and most practical systems are still built ... see more
Laurence Danlos,Katerina Rysova,Magdalena Rysova,Manfred Stede
Starting from the perspective that discourse structure arises from the presence of coherence relations, we provide a map of linguistic discourse structuring devices (DRDs), and focus on those for written text. We propose to structure these items by differ... see more
Vera Mónica Cabarrão,Helena Moniz,Fernando Batista,Jaime Ferreira,Isabel Trancoso,Ana Isabel Mata
This paper presents an analysis of discourse markers in two spontaneous speech corpora for European Portuguese - university lectures and map-task dialogues - and also in a collection of tweets, aiming at contributing to their categorization, scarcely exis... see more
Elena Musi,Debanjan Ghosh,Smaranda Muresan
In Discourse Studies concessions are considered among those argumentative strategies that increase persuasion. We aim to empirically test this hypothesis by calculating the distribution of argumentative concessions in persuasive vs. non-persuasive comment... see more
Sumeyra Tosun,Jyotsna Vaid
Languages vary in how they encode and interpret attested information. The present research examined how users of Turkish and English construe utterances containing evidential information, in particular, whether evidential information is interpreted strict... see more
ANDREA SANTANA,Wilbert Spooren,Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen,Ted Sanders
AbstractCorpus-based studies in various languages have demonstrated that some connectives are used preferentially to express subjective versus objective meanings, for example, omdat vs. want in Dutch. However, Spanish connectives have been understudied fr... see more