A Distributional View of Discourse Encapsulation: Multifactorial Prediction of Coreference Density in RST

What makes an entity salient in discourse?

Entities in discourse vary in salience: main participants, objects and locations stay prominent, while others are quickly forgotten, raising questions about how humans signal and infer discourse-level salience. Using a g…

Entity-Augmented Distributional Semantics for Discourse Relations

Discourse relations bind smaller linguistic elements into coherent texts. However, automatically identifying discourse relations is difficult, because it requires understanding the semantics of the linked sentences. A mo…

One Vector is Not Enough: Entity-Augmented Distributional Semantics for Discourse Relations

Discourse relations bind smaller linguistic units into coherent texts. However, automatically identifying discourse relations is difficult, because it requires understanding the semantics of the linked arguments. A more …

Towards Compositional Distributional Discourse Analysis

Categorical compositional distributional semantics provide a method to derive the meaning of a sentence from the meaning of its individual words: the grammatical reduction of a sentence automatically induces a linear map…

An Exploration of Discourse-Based Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Semantics