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Discourse Processing

Author : Manfred Stede
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608457346
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Processing written by Manfred Stede and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse Processing here is framed as marking up a text with structural descriptions on several levels, which can serve to support many language-processing or text-mining tasks. We first explore some ways of assigning structure on the document level: the logical document structure as determined by the layout of the text, its genre-specific content structure, and its breakdown into topical segments. Then the focus moves to phenomena of local coherence. We introduce the problem of coreference and look at methods for building chains of coreferring entities in the text. Next, the notion of coherence relation is introduced as the second important factor of local coherence. We study the role of connectives and other means of signaling such relations in text, and then return to the level of larger textual units, where tree or graph structures can be ascribed by recursively assigning coherence relations. Taken together, these descriptions can inform text summarization, information extraction, discourse-aware sentiment analysis, question answering, and the like. Table of Contents: Introduction / Large Discourse Units and Topics / Coreference Resolution / Small Discourse Units and Coherence Relations / Summary: Text Structure on Multiple Interacting Levels

Speech & Language Processing

Author : Dan Jurafsky
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131716724
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Speech & Language Processing written by Dan Jurafsky and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Focus and Coherence in Discourse Processing

Author : Gert Rickheit
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110808412
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Focus and Coherence in Discourse Processing by : Gert Rickheit

Download or read book Focus and Coherence in Discourse Processing written by Gert Rickheit and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discourse Processing

Author : A. Flammer
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 008086662X
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Processing written by A. Flammer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on discourse (or text) processing has only recently come into its own. It builds on the work of text analysis which has a long and distinguished history, but modern developments in psychology (e.g. memory research), artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy have contributed to this emergence in the last decade as a lively and promising research area. This book contains 46 selected and edited contributions from the International Symposium held in Fribourg in 1981, and represents a truly international overview of the developments in research on written and oral discourse. The contributions have been grouped according to problem area and not according to methodology, with the intention of focusing on the important issues in the field of discourse processing and of showing how diverse approaches contribute to a better understanding of the problems involved. The main themes are: text structure, coherence, inference, memory processes, attention and control, goal perspectives, and educational implications.

Challenges of Discourse Processing

Author : Patrick Saint-Dizier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857513
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Challenges of Discourse Processing written by Patrick Saint-Dizier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse analysis remains an unresolved challenge in Computational Linguistics, in spite of the numerous theoretical works that have been developed in the past two decades. This situation is mainly due to the complexity of discourse constructions whose recognition often involves language analysis associated with domain knowledge and reasoning. Technical documents, such as procedures, requirements, and product manuals, must be relatively constrained in terms of language diversity and complexity: the goal is to make sure that users can efficiently and accurately understand these documents. For that purpose, these documents often follow authoring guidelines. These constraints make it possible to develop an accurate discourse analysis of technical documents which can be used to model their contents and to improve their overall quality. This book shows that linguistic analysis and natural language processing methods can efficiently be used to automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents, independently of the industrial sector and activity that is considered. Furthermore, the book presents well-founded and concrete solutions, which can be deployed in industrial contexts for various types of applications. This book begins with a presentation of the different types of technical texts. Their structure is then developed in conjunction with a survey of a number of authoring guidelines developed in the industry. The TextCoop platform and the Dislog language, designed for discourse analysis, are then presented with a large number of concrete examples, allowing readers to develop their own applications. The book concludes with an in-depth investigation of the structure of procedures and requirements.

Accessibility in Text and Discourse Processing

Author : Ted J.M. Sanders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135482659
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Accessibility in Text and Discourse Processing written by Ted J.M. Sanders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue shows how accessibility phenomena need to be studied from a linguistic and psycholinguistic angle, and in the latter case from interpretation, as well as production. The contributions augment the growing knowledge of accessibility in text and discourse processing. They also illuminate how accessibility is marked in a text or a discourse, how readers and listeners respond to those markings, and how mental representations evolve and change as a direct result of accessibility. The editors hope is that the text affects the readers' representations in ways that linguists and psycholinguists theorize as beneficial.

Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing

Author : Roger van de Velde
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027225354
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing by : Roger van de Velde

Download or read book Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing written by Roger van de Velde and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work consists of an examination and revision of some of the main theses of Speech Act Theory in relation to the problem of ideology and action-guiding language. Starting from the idea that linguistic philosophy must take into account how the social structure of the linguistic community may influence and direct the way its language is used, a critical method of analysis is proposed, developing Speech Act Theory in a way suitable for this purpose. The main guideline of this proposal is the consideration that a theory of action rather than a theory of meaning should be taken as central in the analysis of language. The notion of illocutionary force, the problem of intentions and conventions in the constitution of speech acts, the definition of context, and the classification of speech acts, are then discussed. Based on the conclusions of this discussion a pragmatic method for the analysis of language is formulated.

Mental Models in Discourse Processing and Reasoning

Author : G. Rickheit
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080536224
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Mental Models in Discourse Processing and Reasoning written by G. Rickheit and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1999-10-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary discussion on mental models, researchers from various areas in cognitive science tackle the following questions: What is a mental model? What are the prospects and limitations in applying the mental model notion in cognitive science? How can the ideas on the nature of mental models and their mode of operation be empirically substantiated? The primary goal of the research group was to work out a definition of mental models that embraces the overall use of this construct in cognitive science as well as the more specific conceptions used in particular research domains such as cognitive linguistics. Theoretical claims about the properties of mental models were discussed and their tenability evaluated against the empirical evidence. The volume is divided into three parts. Fundamental aspects of mental models are presented in the first section, the following part contains contributions to the function of mental models in discourse processing, and finally problems of mental models in reasoning and problem solving are outlined.

Language Processing in Discourse

Author : Monika Doherty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134460562
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Language Processing in Discourse written by Monika Doherty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the typological characteristics of a language determine even the most general aspects of our stylistic preferences. Through extensive analysis of examples in German and English, the author demonstrates how analogous options of sentence structure must be surrendered in order to achieve felicitous translations. Two major aspects that determine the appropriateness of language use are examined: language processing and discourse-dependency. Essential reading for translation scholars and linguists involved in the comparative study of English and German, this book will also be of interest to scholars of psycholinguistics and cognitive science, as well as translators and linguists more generally.

Analyzing Discourse and Text Complexity for Learning and Collaborating

Author : Mihai Dascălu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319034197
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Analyzing Discourse and Text Complexity for Learning and Collaborating written by Mihai Dascălu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent and increasing popularity of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and e-learning technologies, the need of automatic assessment and of teacher/tutor support for the two tightly intertwined activities of comprehension of reading materials and of collaboration among peers has grown significantly. In this context, a polyphonic model of discourse derived from Bakhtin’s work as a paradigm is used for analyzing both general texts and CSCL conversations in a unique framework focused on different facets of textual cohesion. As specificity of our analysis, the individual learning perspective is focused on the identification of reading strategies and on providing a multi-dimensional textual complexity model, whereas the collaborative learning dimension is centered on the evaluation of participants’ involvement, as well as on collaboration assessment. Our approach based on advanced Natural Language Processing techniques provides a qualitative estimation of the learning process and enhances understanding as a “mediator of learning” by providing automated feedback to both learners and teachers or tutors. The main benefits are its flexibility, extensibility and nevertheless specificity for covering multiple stages, starting from reading classroom materials, to discussing on specific topics in a collaborative manner and finishing the feedback loop by verbalizing metacognitive thoughts.

Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing

Author : Roger Van de Velde
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027280045
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing by : Roger Van de Velde

Download or read book Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing written by Roger Van de Velde and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization. On the one hand, it spells out in what ways human thinking succeeds in recognizing the surface form of grammatical organization which is characteristic of discourse expression (termed ‘cohesion’). On the other hand, it makes clear which human reasoning processes are involved in the construction of the different levels of organization which are characteristic of text content (termed ‘coherence’). Much attention is devoted to the hierarchical relationships between cohesion and coherence. In line with these hierarchizing endeavors, this book also addresses the related problem of whether the reasoning processes involved in reading verbal texts are ranked in order of importance. This book lends much weight to the empirical control of its claims. It does not only consider the language processing activities of normals, but it also devotes a great deal of attention to the disordered language reception activities of schizophrenics and aphasics.

Handbook of Discourse Processes

Author : Arthur C. Graesser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135659273
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Discourse Processes written by Arthur C. Graesser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-04-02 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of discourse processes. The editors hope to foster a more interdisciplinary approach to discourse processing with this Handbook, while simultaneously developing an appreciation within the field for multiple methods of establishing rigorous scientific claims. The field of discourse processes is currently fueled by seven dominant approaches: * discourse psychology; * corpus analysis; * computational discourse; * discourse technologies; * conversation analysis; * hybrid qualitative and quantitative approaches; and * cultural foundations. The contributors also discuss future trends in research, including corpus analyses, the integration of neuroscience with discourse research, and the development of more advanced computer technologies for analyzing discourse.

Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion

Author : Patrizia Anesa
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030700935
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion written by Patrizia Anesa and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses different forms of discourse by analysing the emergence of power dynamics in communication and their importance in shaping the production and reception of messages. The chapters focus on specific cognitive aspects, such as the verbal expression of reasoning or emotions, as well as on linguistic and discursive processes. The interaction between reasoning, feelings, and emotions is described in relation to several fields of discourse where power dynamics may emerge and includes, among others, political, media, and academic discourse. This volume aims to include representative instances of this heterogeneity and is deeply rooted, both theoretically and methodologically, in the acknowledgment that the investigation of the complex interaction between reason and emotion in discursive productions cannot be exempt from the adoption of a multi-disciplinary perspective. By providing a critical reflection of their methodological decisions, and describing the implications of their research projects, the contributors offer insights which are relevant for students, researchers, and practitioners operating in the broad field of discourse studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes

Author : Michael F. Schober
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317417976
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes written by Michael F. Schober and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of discourse processes, highlighting the subject’s interdisciplinary foundations and bringing together established and emergent scholars to provide a dynamic roadmap of the evolution of the field. This new edition reflects several of the enormous changes in the world since the publication of the first edition—changes in modes of communication and an increased urgency to understand how people comprehend and trust information. The contents of this volume attempt to address fundamental questions about what we should now be thinking about reading, listening, talking, and writing. The chapters collected here represent a wide range of empirical methods currently available: lab or field experiments, with a range of measures, from quantitative to qualitative; observational studies, including classrooms or organizational communication; corpus analyses; conversation analysis; computational modeling; and linguistic analyses. The chapters also draw attention to the explosion of contextually rich and computationally intensive data analysis tools which have changed the research landscape, along with more contemporary measures of people’s discourse use, from eye-tracking to video analysis tools to brain scans. The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes, Second edition is the ideal resource for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in a variety of disciplines, including discourse analysis, conversation analysis, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science.

Spoken Language Processing

Author : Xuedong Huang
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Spoken Language Processing written by Xuedong Huang and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable progress is being made in spoken language processing, but many powerful techniques have remained hidden in conference proceedings and academic papers, inaccessible to most practitioners. In this book, the leaders of the Speech Technology Group at Microsoft Research share these advances -- presenting not just the latest theory, but practical techniques for building commercially viable products.KEY TOPICS: Spoken Language Processing draws upon the latest advances and techniques from multiple fields: acoustics, phonology, phonetics, linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, syntax, psychology, and beyond. The book begins by presenting essential background on speech production and perception, probability and information theory, and pattern recognition. The authors demonstrate how to extract useful information from the speech signal; then present a variety of contemporary speech recognition techniques, including hidden Markov models, acoustic and language modeling, and techniques for improving resistance to environmental noise. Coverage includes decoders, search algorithms, large vocabulary speech recognition techniques, text-to-speech, spoken language dialog management, user interfaces, and interaction with non-speech interface modalities. The authors also present detailed case studies based on Microsoft's advanced prototypes, including the Whisper speech recognizer, Whistler text-to-speech system, and MiPad handheld computer.MARKET: For anyone involved with planning, designing, building, or purchasing spoken language technology.

Discourse as Structure and Process

Author : Professor Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1849207038
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Discourse as Structure and Process written by Professor Teun A. van Dijk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-02-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the structures of discourse and what are the functions of these structures in the communicative context? This volume explains how and why discourse is organized at various levels. The multidisciplinary contributions illustrate that discourse analysis goes far beyond the linguistic answer of designing grammars and goes hand in hand with the study of their uses and functions in the social context. Comprehensive and accessible, the volume covers a huge variety of discourse genres, including written and spoken, and storytelling and argumentation. The chapters also illustrate the necessity to examine the mental processes of the language users: How do people go about producing, understanding and remembering text or talk?

Discourse as Structure and Process

Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803978454
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Discourse as Structure and Process written by Teun A. van Dijk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the structures of discourse and what are the functions of these structures in the communicative context? This volume explains how and why discourse is organized at various levels. The multidisciplinary contributions illustrate that discourse analysis goes far beyond the linguistic answer of designing grammars and goes hand in hand with the study of their uses and functions in the social context. Comprehensive and accessible, the volume covers a huge variety of discourse genres, including written and spoken, and storytelling and argumentation. The chapters also illustrate the necessity to examine the mental processes of the language users: How do people go about producing, understanding and remembering text or talk? The book stresses that both discourse and its mental processing have a social basis and can only be fully understood in relation to social interaction.