10 articles in this issue
Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul,Jet Hoek,Merel C.J. Scholman
Temporal information is one of the prominent features that determine the coherence in a discourse. That is why we need an adequate way to deal with this type of information during discourse annotation. In this paper, we will argue that temporal order is a... see more
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran,Owen Rambow
Understanding how the social context of an interaction affects our dialog behavior is of great interest to social scientists who study human behavior, as well as to computer scientists who build automatic methods to infer those social contexts. In this pa... see more
Merel Cleo Johanna Scholman,Vera Demberg
Examples and specifications occur frequently in text, but not much is known about how they function in discourse and how readers interpret them. Looking at how they’re annotated in existing discourse corpora, we find that annotators often disagree on thes... see more
Mindaugas Mozuraitis,Daphna Heller
It has long been argued that accenting or stressing a pronoun (i.e., making it prosodically prominent) changes its interpretation as compared to its unaccented counterpart. However, recent experimental work demonstrated that this generalization does not a... see more
Reid William Swanson,Andrew S. Gordon,Peter Khooshabeh,Kenji Sagae,Richard Huskey,Michael Mangus,Ori Amir,Rene Weber
Storytelling is a universal activity, but the way in which discourse structure is used to persuasively convey ideas and emotions may depend on cultural factors. Because first-person accounts of life experiences can have a powerful impact in how a pe... see more
Zeynep Cihan Koca Helvaci
This study explores strategies in pro and anti-shale organizations’ discourse by combining the Discourse-Historical Approach (Wodak, 2001) with corpus linguistics. With the help of keyword lists, collocations, concordances, and key semantic domains, the r... see more
Ludivine Crible,Maria-Josep Cuenca
It is generally acknowledged that discourse markers are used differently in speech and writing, yet many general descriptions and most annotation frameworks are written-based, thus partially unfit to be applied in spoken corpora. This paper identifies the... see more
Boris Galitsky
To support a natural flow of a conversation between humans and automated agents, rhetoric structures of each message has to be analyzed. We classify a pair of paragraphs of text as appropriate for one to follow another, or inappropriate, based on both top... see more
Kazunori Komatani,Naoki Hotta,Satoshi Sato,Mikio Nakano
Ideally, the users of spoken dialogue systems should be able to speak at their own tempo. Thus, the systems needs to interpret utterances from various users correctly, even when the utterances contain pauses. In response to this issue, we propose an appro... see more
Lucie Polakova,Jiri Mirovsky,Pavlina Synkova
Describing implicit phenomena in discourse is known to be a problematic task, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. The present article contributes to this topic by a novel comparative analysis of two prominent annotation approaches to discour... see more