| D Cristea, N Ide and L Romary, 1998. Veins Theory: A model of global discourse cohesion and coherence. In Proc COLING/ACL'98, pp 281-285, Montreal. |
....implementations use a shared inventory of discourse features; the architecture of ICONOCLAST is such that it is straightforward to incorporate different algorithms which make use of these features. Currently we implement a choice between variants of CT (including Cristea s Veins Theory (Cristea et al. 1998) and a basic parallelism algorithm proposed by Massimo Poesio (p.c) Specific proper names: No specific contribution from ITRI, apart from input to the initial annotation scheme. Specific Reference to parts of text: Work in progress: initial algorithm has been developed as part of a PhD ....
.... is now threaded at two distinct levels: a feature PLIST records the propositions that have been expressed so far, in order of recency, and a separate feature VLIST reflects the nucleus satellite structure of preceding text as defined by Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann and Thompson 1987; cf. Cristea et al. 1998). 2 Issues in nominal generation 2.1 Terminology The phrases referring expression and nominal expression are often used interchangeably though they mean different things: not all nominal expressions or noun phrases actually refer to an identifiable entity or set, and some researchers have ....
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D Cristea, N Ide and L Romary, 1998. Veins Theory: A model of global discourse cohesion and coherence. In Proc COLING/ACL'98, pp 281-285, Montreal.
....sequences which maintain the same center. Our implementation incorporates two extensions which have implications for more structured discourse: Strube and Hahn s (1999) cheapness principle, which favours transitions that introduce a new topic in a salient position, and Cristea s Veins Theory (Cristea et al. 1998) which redefines transitions in terms of rhetorical hierarchy rather than linear sequence of clauses (see section 3.3 for discussion) Cheapness is satisfied by a transition pair hhU n Gamma1 ; U n i; hU n ; U n 1 ii if the preferred center of U n is the Cb of U n 1 . For example, this test is ....
....Following a linear criterion, the predecessor is simply the proposition that precedes the current proposition in the text, regardless of structural considerations. Following a hierarchical criterion, the predecessor is the most accessible previous proposition, in the sense defined by Veins Theory (Cristea et al. 1998). We will return to this issue later; for now we assume the criterion is linear. SigmaC b(U n ) potential Cbs of proposition U n ) is given by the intersection between Cf(U n ) and Cf(U n Gamma1 ) i.e. all the referents they have in common. The potential Cps are those referents in the ....
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D Cristea, N Ide and L Romary, 1998. Veins Theory: A model of global discourse cohesion and coherence. In Proc COLING/ACL'98, pp 281-285, Montreal.
....greater than it will be any other time of one s life . As in a few other recent approaches to discourse processing [ Polanyi and van den Berg, 1996; van den 3 The s and e subscripts correspond to starting and ending positions. Berg, 1996; Gardent, 1997; Cristea and Webber, 1997; Schilder, 1997; Cristea et al. 1998 ] discourse structures are assumed to be binary trees without restricting the generality of the problem. In our formalization, each node of a discourse structure is characterized by four features: the status (nucleus or satellite) the type (the rhetorical relations that hold between the text ....
Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, and Laurent Romary. Veins theory: A model of global discourse cohesion and coherence. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL-- 98), Montreal, Canada, August 1998.
....the closest in a linear interpretation of a text. However, because referential expressions are organized in equivalence classes, it is sufficient that an anaphor is resolved to some member of the set. This is consistent with the distinction between direct and indirect references discussed in (Cristea, et al. 1998). 1 2 3 4 5 67 8 9 10 11 12 13 H = 19 V = 19 H = 1 V = 19 H = 9 V = 19 H =1 V =1 9 H = 5 V = 159 H = 1 V = 19 H = 3 V = 1359 H = 67 V = 15679 H =9 V =1 9 H = 9 V = 19 H =9 V =1 (8) 9 H = 10 V = 1910 H = 11 V = 191011 H = 3 V = 1359 DRA ....
Cristea D., Ide N., and Romary L. (1998). Veins Theory: A Model of Global Discourse Cohesion and Coherence. Proceedings of COLING-ACL'98, 281-285.
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