An increasing number of researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Engineering
face the prospect of having to work with entire texts, rather than individual sentences. While …

Discourse parsing is an integral part of understanding information flow and argumentative
structure in documents. Most previous research has focused on inducing and evaluating …

1. Divide the text into units 2. Look at each unit, and its neighbours. Is there a clear relation
holding between them? 3. If yes, then mark that relation (eg, Condition) 4. If not, the unit …

This paper introduces the first Basque discourse TreeBank annotated with rhetorical
relations following Rhetorical Structure Theory. We report the main features of the corpus …

The discourse properties of text have long been recognized as critical to language
technology, and over the past 40 years, our understanding of and ability to exploit the …

The Uniform Information Density (UID) hypothesis posits that speakers tend to distribute
information evenly across linguistic units to achieve efficient communication. Of course …

Discourse structure is a key aspect of all forms of text, providing valuable information both to
humans and machines. We applied the hierarchical theory of news discourse developed by …

The paper deals with the pilot version of the first RST discourse treebank for Russian. The
project started in 2016. At present, the treebank consists of sixty news texts annotated for …

Over the last decade, annotating coherence relations has gained increasing interest of the
linguistics research community. Often, trained linguists are employed for discourse …

Discourse segmentation is a crucial step in building end-to-end discourse parsers. However,
discourse segmenters only exist for a few languages and domains. Typically they only detect …