Discourse Processing

Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
Genre-induced text structure......Page 19
Logical document structure......Page 21
Example: Scientific papers......Page 25
Example: Film reviews......Page 27
Introduction: ``What is this all about?''......Page 28
Exploiting surface cues......Page 31
Lexical chains......Page 34
Word distributions......Page 40
Probabilistic models of segmentation and topics......Page 46
Combining evidence......Page 48
Summary......Page 49
Coreference Resolution......Page 51
Reference and coreference: An overview......Page 52
Corpus annotation......Page 58
Entity-based local coherence......Page 63
Determining anaphoricity and familiarity status......Page 66
Matching proper names......Page 69
Pronoun resolution......Page 70
Resolving definite noun phrases......Page 73
Web-assisted resolution of `other'-anaphora......Page 75
Statistical approaches to coreference resolution......Page 77
Features......Page 78
Mention-pair models......Page 80
Alternative models......Page 83
Evaluation......Page 86
Summary......Page 87
Coherence relations......Page 91
Defining EDUs......Page 99
A subproblem: Attribution......Page 102
Automatic EDU segmentation......Page 104
Connectives: An introduction......Page 109
Identifying connectives......Page 113
Interpreting connectives......Page 115
Detecting implicit coherence relations......Page 122
Finding relations: The problem at large......Page 124
Coherence-relational text structure......Page 125
Trees......Page 126
Parsing coherence-relational trees......Page 129
Graphs......Page 135
Summary: Guessing or underspecifying?......Page 138
Summary: Text Structure on Multiple Interacting Levels......Page 141
Sample text......Page 145
Bibliography......Page 149
Author's Biography......Page 167