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.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 | Article
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
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 | Article
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
2012 Introduction Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure, Benz, Anton, Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
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
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 | Article
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
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 | Article