Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure
Edited by Anton Benz, Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 223] 2012. vii, 229 pp.
Manfred Stede
List of John Benjamins publications for which Manfred Stede plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2020. Automatic argumentation mining and the role of stance and sentiment. Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions, Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 19–41
Argumentation mining is a subfield of Computational Linguistics that aims (primarily) at automatically finding arguments and their structural components in natural language text. We provide a short introduction to this field, intended for an audience with a limited computational background. After… read more | Article
2014. Resolving connective ambiguity: a prerequisite for discourse parsing. The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence: Theories and applications, Gruber, Helmut and Gisela Redeker (eds.), pp. 121–141
Automatic discourse parsing refers to the identification of coherence relations
and deriving a structural description for a text. Such parsers can derive much
information from the presence of surface cues, especially connectives. These
lexical signals, however, are ambiguous: Many have… read more | Article
2012. Introduction. Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure, Benz, Anton, Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 1–16
Discourse analysis is a sub–field of linguistics which can be approached from many different directions, involving a large variety of different methods. In most of the work reported in this book, discourse refers to written monologue. For the purposes of this introduction, we thus largely… read more | Article
2012. Complex connectives in German: Complications for local coherence analysis. Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure, Benz, Anton, Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 165–182
Identifying the presence of coherence relations automatically is known to be a difficult task for a number of reasons. One of the problems involved has so far received only little attention: Connectives (the primary source of information for relation analysis) can be complex, i.e. consist of several… read more | Article
2008. RST revisited: Disentangling nuclearity. 'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text: A cross-linguistic perspective, Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine and Wiebke Ramm (eds.), pp. 33–58
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