Coherence in natural language : data structures and applications / Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolf, Florian.

Contributor:

Gibson, Edward, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cohesion (Linguistics).

Discourse analysis.

Computational linguistics.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

vi, 137 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]

Summary:

A discussion of coherence in natural language that develops criteria for descriptively adequate data structures and examines the influence of coherence on psycholinguistic processes and determining the relative importance of document segments.

Contents:

1.1 Representations and Data Structures for Discourse Coherence 2

1.2 Discourse Coherence and Psycholinguistic Processing 4

1.3 Discourse Coherence and the Importance of Document Segments 5

1.4 Cognitive Science and Natural Language Engineering 6

2 Representing Discourse Coherence: Corpus-Based Analysis 9

2.2 Current Approaches to Representing Discourse Structure 14

2.3 Collecting a Database of Texts Annotated with Coherence Relations 22

2.4 Data Structures for Representing Coherence Relations 41

2.5 Statistics 53

3 Discourse Coherence and Pronoun Resolution 69

3.2 Accounts of Pronoun Processing 69

3.3 Experiment 1 73

3.4 Experiment 2 78

4 Coherence Structure and Discourse Segment Rankings 87

4.2 Approaches to Sentence Ranking 88

4.3 Coherence-Based Sentence Ranking Revisited 90

4.4 Experiments 102

5.1 Data Structures for Representing Discourse Coherence 115

5.2 Discourse Coherence and Pronoun Processing 118

5.3 Discourse Coherence and Discourse Segment Rankings 119.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-131) and index.

ISBN:

0262232510

OCLC:

62408871

Publisher Number:

9780262232517