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Natural Language Engineering · 121 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract An increasing number of researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Engineering face the prospect of having to work with entire texts, rather than individual sentences. While it is clear that text must have useful structure, its nature may be less clear, making it more difficult to exploit in applications. This survey of work on discourse structure thus provides a primer on the bases of which discourse is structured along with some of their formal properties. It then lays out the current state-of-the-art with respect to algorithms for recognizing these different structures, and how these algorithms are currently being used in Language Technology applications. After identifying resources that should prove useful in improving algorithm performance across a range of languages, we conclude by speculating on future discourse structure-enabled technology.
Journal of Logic Language and Information · 116 Zitationen · DOI
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We introduce a first-order language for semantic underspecification that we call Constraint Language for Lambda-Structures (CLLS). A λ-structure can be considered as a λ-term up to consistent renaming of bound variables (λ-equality); a constraint of CLLS is an underspecified description of a λ-structure. CLLS solves a capturing problem omnipresent in underspecified scope representations. CLLS features constraints for dominance, lambda binding, parallelism, and anaphoric links. Based on CLLS we present a simple, integrated, and underspecified treatment of scope, parallelism, and anaphora.
Language and Linguistics Compass · 39 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract Semantic underspecification is a technique to capture several readings of an ambiguous expression in one single representation by deliberately omitting the differences between the readings in the representation. First, underspecification formalisms will be presented to introduce underspecification in general and to outline important properties of these formalisms that allow their classification into subgroups. After expounding the kinds of ambiguity to which underspecification can be applied, the article then presents various motivations for the use of underspecification, and shows how underspecified semantic representations can be further processed.
Journal of Semantics · 32 Zitationen · DOI
Verbs like begin may take either a VP or an NP complement, but their meaning is pretty similar in both cases, e.g., for begin, the start of an eventuality is at stake.
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In this paper we discuss the influence of semantically unexpected information on the prosodic realization of contrast. For this purpose, we examine the interplay between unexpectedness and various discourse factors that have been claimed to enhance the accentuation of contrastive information: contrast direction, syntactic status, and discourse distance. We conducted a production experiment in Dutch in which speakers described scenes consisting of moving fruits with unnatural colors. We found that a general cognitive factor such as the unexpectedness of a property has a strong impact on the intonational marking of contrast, over and above the influence of the immediate discourse context.
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft · 27 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract The syntax-semantics interface is iconic in that it maps syntactic asymmetries (in particular, unilateral c-command) onto semantic asymmetries (scope relations). But many modification structures seem to violate this iconicity: here the modifier has (optionally or obligatorily) semantic scope over only a part of the expression that it modifies syntactically. First I will show that some well-known cases of syntax-semantics mismatch are instances of this phenomenon. Then I will specify an extremely flexible syntax-semantics interface to handle the apparent anti-iconicity. This interface crucially relies on the expressive power of a suitable underspecification formalism. With the interface one can derive the semantic representations of the problematic examples from surface-oriented syntactic structures without giving up the iconicity between syntax and semantics.Apparent anti-iconicity eventually emerges as scope underspecification between a modifier and part of the expression that it modifies. The analysis is applied to German and Turkish data.
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We are compiling a corpus of Dutch texts annotated with discourse structure and lexical cohesion, containing initially 80 texts from expository and persuasive genres. We are using this resource for corpus-based studies of discourse relations, discourse markers, cohesion, and genre differences. We are also exploring the possibilities of automatic text segmentation and semi-automatic discourse annotation. This paper discusses our design choices in text selection and segmentation and in the annotation of discourse structure and lexical cohesion. 1
University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) · 25 Zitationen
We have compiled a corpus of 80 Dutch texts from expository and persuasive genres, which we annotated for rhetorical and genre-specific discourse structure, and lexical cohesion with the goal of creating a gold standard for further research. The annotations are based on a segmentation of the text in elementary discourse units that takes into account cues from syntax and punctuation. During the labor-intensive discourse-structure annotation (RST analysis), we took great care to thoroughly reconcile the initial analyses. That process and the availability of two independent initial analyses for each text allows us to analyze our disagreements and to assess the confusability of RST relations, and thereby improve the annotation guidelines and gather evidence for the classification of these relations into larger groups. We are using this resource for corpus-based studies of discourse relations, discourse markers, cohesion, and genre differences, e.g., the question of how discourse structure and lexical cohesion interact for different genres in the overall organization of texts. We are also exploring automatic text segmentation and semi-automatic discourse annotation.
Journal of Semantics · 25 Zitationen · DOI
The topic of this paper are predicates like to play a sonata or to cough, whose classification in proposed systems of aknonsarten is unsatisfactory I will present an augmentation of Dowey‘s system of aknonsart to classify these predicates adequately. This revised classification employs the features ‘interval-based’ (- can be evaluated with respect to extended periods of time only), ‘bounded’ and ‘telic’. Boundedness and telicity are different features. Bounded predicates apply to limited stretches of time only, telic predicates introduce a change of state. The features are ordered (telic predicates are bounded, bounded predicates are interval-based) and distinguish four mutually non-overlapping groups of aknonsarten: state, process, intergressives and change. Intergressive predicates are represented as in Dowty (1979), i.e more complex predicates are analysed as less complex ones linked by suitable operators. Two intergressive operators account for the whole range of intergressive predicates. The close parallel between the classification of aknonsarten and the classification of nominal expressions carries over to the distinction of intergressive and change predicates. Next, an extension of one intergressive operator to non-temporal domains will be sketched and, finally, I will show that the assumption of an intergressive akuonsart has wide repercussions in other semantic fields.
Figurative thought and language · 24 Zitationen · DOI
Pragmatics & beyond. New series · 24 Zitationen · DOI
This paper proposes an approach to discourse structure that builds on syntactic structure to derive that part of discourse structure that can be captured without taking recourse to deep semantic or conceptual knowledge. This contribution is typically only partial; we intend to capture this partiality in terms of underspecified constraints that describe (but do not enumerate) the structures a given discourse might have. This allows a rather straightforward interface from syntax to discourse and yields a clean interface to modules of discourse resolution.
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory · 23 Zitationen · DOI
Figurative thought and language · 22 Zitationen · DOI
This paper investigates deliberate metaphors in the Pauline epistles in the framework of Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT), which targets metaphors that require conscious processing ( Steen, 2009 ), but also with reference to other threads of metaphor research that pay attention to phenomena of deliberateness. Focus is on metaphors that exhibit deliberateness through their content. For these metaphors, deliberateness emerges through alienation, which highlights the differences between the two domains that are brought together in the metaphor. Three techniques of alienation are identified, using an ill-fitting literal (or source) domain for the metaphor, using contradicting source domains for the same metaphor, and using an internally flawed source domain. Many of these metaphors are motivated in that they convey a clear message that emerges through the alienation.
University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) · 20 Zitationen
This paper contributes to the question of which degree of complexity is called for in representations of discourse structure. We review recent claims that tree structures do not suffice as a model for discourse structure, with a focus on the work done on the Discourse Graphbank (DGB) of Wolf and Gibson (2005, 2006). We will show that much of the additional complexity in the DGB is not inherent in the data, but due to specific design choices that underlie W&G’s annotation. Three kinds of configuration are identified whose DGB analysis violates tree-structure constraints, but for which an analysis in terms of tree structures is possible, viz., crossed dependencies that are eventually based on lexical or referential overlap, multiple-parent structures that could be handled in terms of Marcu’s (1996) Nuclearity Principle, and potential list structures, in which whole lists of segments are related to a preceding segment in the same way. We also discuss the recent results which Lee et al. (2008) adduce as evidence for a complexity of discourse structure that cannot be handled in terms of tree structures. 1.
Journal of Semantics · 18 Zitationen · DOI
In this paper, I present Underspecified Minimal Recursion Semantics (UMRS), a representation language that represents structural ambiguities in terms of underspecification. It is argued that this kind of approach allows for transparent semantic representations and a straightforward syntax-semantics interface. UMRS is a semantic metalanguage, whose expressions describe expressions of an object language and (possibly underspecified) dependences between them. The potential of UMRS will be illustrated by employing it as the semantic component of an HPSG description of wh-questions.
edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin) · 17 Zitationen · DOI
In presenting philological reading of spatial metaphors in ancient texts and their reception based on theoretical approaches to metaphor, this is a pioneering study which also bears testimony to the increasing interest in the potential and cognitive functions of metaphor in literary studies. The individual studies of er a representative synopsis of current theories on spatial metaphors and encompass applications to literary texts from a number of genres and languages ranging from wisdom texts and philosophical treatises to tragedy and from Ancient Egyptian to Shakespearean English, thus spanning almost 3000 years of human thought and language. Based on this framework of theory and practice, this volume collects a series of papers originally delivered at a conference entitled Raum-Metaphern in antiken Texten und deren Rezeption, organized by research group C-2 Space and Metaphor in Cognition, Language and Texts of the Excellence Cluster of Topoi The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations in Berlin in June 2014.
Heritage Science · 16 Zitationen · DOI
Cultural heritage objects made of wood can be preserved under waterlogged conditions for many years, where decay is slowed down and the wood structure is more or less completely filled with water. Depending on the degree of degradation, finds may collapse and shrink when they are allowed to dry in an uncontrolled manner after excavation, leading to total loss of the object and its information. Conservation measures are taken to prevent damage of objects and dimensional stability is an important criterion. In this study, structured-light 3D scanning and micro-computed tomography were used to analyse the dimensional stability of wood after conservation, as well as its long-term stability. 83 samples from a reference collection established between 2008 and 2011 allowed this comparative study of the most common conservation methods at that time. The effects of conservation methods using alcohol-ether resin, melamine-formaldehyde (Kauramin 800<sup>®</sup>), lactitol/trehalose, saccharose, and silicone oil on dimensional stability were investigated. In addition, different polyethylene glycol (PEG) treatments with subsequent freeze-drying were also investigated: one-stage with PEG 2000, two-stage with PEG 400 and PEG 4000 and three-stage with PEG 400, PEG 1500 and PEG 4000. The data received from analyses of both volume and surface gave detailed information about the success of each conservation method. Attempts were made to quantify the damage patterns, specifically shrinkage, collapse, and cracks. While PEG and freeze-drying, alcohol-ether-resin, as well as the Kauramin 800<sup>®</sup> method gave the best results, analysis also highlighted the failures of each method.
Pragmatics & beyond. New series · 16 Zitationen · DOI
This paper reports preliminary results. from an ongoing project investigating the alignment between coherence structure and lexical cohesion in thematically organized expository texts (encyclopedia entries) and intentionally structured persuasive texts (fundraising letters) at the global level of discourse organization. A genre-specific description of the coherence structure is achieved by mapping genre-specific moves onto the top levels of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) trees. Networks of lexical cohesion are formed by word repetition, systematic semantic relations (e.g. hyponymy, meronymy, and synonymy) and collocation relations between lexical items. By comparing the centrality of text parts in the coherence and cohesion structures, we show that coherence is more closely aligned with lexical cohesion in the expository texts than in the persuasive texts.
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We offer a compositional analysis of the way in which the semantic contribution of discourse particles is integrated into the interpretation of their host sentences at the syntax-semantics interface. The particles interact syntactically both with the left periphery of the sentence, thus modifying its illocutionary force by changing its felicity conditions, but also with its vP via a focus feature.
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - · 11 Zitationen · DOI
We introduce a first-order language for semantic underspecification that we call Constraint Language for Lambda-Structures (CLLS). A Astructure can be considered as a A-term up to consistent renaming of bound variables (aequality); a constraint of CLLS is an underspecified description of a A-structure. CLLS solves a capturing problem omnipresent in underspecified scope representations. CLLS features constraints for dominance, lambda binding, parallelism, and anaphoric links. Based on CLLS we present a simple, integrated, and underspecified treatment of scope, parallelism, and anaphora.
Functions of Language · 10 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract Continuity and discontinuity (maintaining or shifting deictic centres across segments) are important aspects of discourse relations. Yet they have been attributed to these relations in very different ways. This calls for an analysis of individual instances of discourse relations with respect to their continuity dimensions. To this end, we operationalise Givón’s (1993) continuity dimensions ( time, space, reference, action, perspective, modality, and speech act ), decomposing them into distinctive features that allow a consistent and accurate classification of the continuity dimensions in discourse relation tokens. This inventory was applied to five representative relation types ( causal , contrastive , conditional , elaboration, and temporal ) from the RST Discourse Treebank ( Carlson & Marcu 2001 ). We found that relations can simultaneously be more continuous for some dimensions but more discontinuous for others. What is more, discourse relations typically vary widely in different continuity dimensions and thus cannot be described as fully continuous or discontinuous, neither on the level of the entire relation type nor for one of its particular dimensions. Using examples of causal , conditional, and contrastive relations, we also illustrate how the results of our analysis can be used to verify hypotheses about correlations between continuity and discourse relations.
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