This paper surveys work on applying the insights of lexicalized grammars to low‐level
discourse, to show the value of positing an autonomous grammar for low‐level discourse in …

Text and image are used together in an increasingly flexible fashion and many disciplines
and areas of study are now attempting to understand how these combinations work. This …

Both knowledge and discourse are fundamental notions in the humanities and social
sciences. It is therefore surprising that so little detailed research has been done on the …

Understanding discourse relies to a great extent on correctly interpreting relations holding
between the eventualities and facts mentioned in discourse. These discourse relations, such …

We combine lexical, syntactic, and discourse features to produce a highly predictive model
of human readers' judgments of text readability. This is the first study to take into account …

Rhetorical Structure Theory has enjoyed continuous attention since its origins in the 1980s.
It has been applied, compared to other approaches, and also criticized in a number of areas …

DITION and ELABORATION that hold between arbitrary spans of texts. We show that
discourse relation classifiers trained on examples that are automatically extracted from …

This paper studies the distinction between subordinating and coordinating discourse
relations, a distinction that governs the hierarchical structure of discourse. We provide …

Ever since the formulation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson,
researchers have debated about what is the 'right'number of relations. One proposal is …

We argue in this article that many common adverbial phrases generally taken to signal a
discourse relation between syntactically connected units within discourse structure instead …