5 articles in this issue
Nigel G. Ward,Paola Gallardo
Many language learners never acquire truly native-sounding prosody. Previous work has suggested that this involves skill deficits in the dialog-related uses of prosody, and may be attributable to weaknesses with specific prosodic constructions.&... see more
Ryan Thomas Lowe,Nissan Pow,Iulian Vlad Serban,Laurent Charlin,Chia-Wei Liu,Joelle Pineau
In this paper, we construct and train end-to-end neural network-based dialogue systems usingan updated version of the recent Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus, a dataset containing almost 1 million multi-turn dialogues, with a total of over 7 million utterances and ... see more
Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley,Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac,Josette Rebeyrolle,Ludovic Tanguy,Cécile Fabre
This paper reports on an experiment implementing a data-intensive approach to discourse organisation. Its focus is on enumerative structures envisaged as a type of textual pattern in a sequentiality-oriented approach to discourse. On the basis of a large-... see more
Frances Yung,Kevin Duh,Taku Komura,Yuji Matsumoto
Discourse relations can either be explicitly marked by discourse connectives (DCs), such as therefore and but, or implicitly conveyed in natural language utterances. How speakers choose between the two options is a question that is not well understood. In... see more
Natalia Levshina,Liesbeth Degand
The connective because can express both highly objective and highly subjective causal relations. In this, it differs from its counterparts in other languages, e.g. Dutch, where two conjunctions omdat and want express more objective and more subjective cau... see more