Automatic Classification of Communicative Functions of Definiteness

A Unified Annotation Scheme for the Semantic/Pragmatic Components of Definiteness

We present a definiteness annotation scheme that captures the semantic, pragmatic, and discourse information, which we call communicative functions, associated with linguistic descriptions such as {``}a story about my sp…

Automatic Recognition of the General-Purpose Communicative Functions defined by the ISO 24617-2 Standard for Dialog Act Annotation

ISO 24617-2, the standard for dialog act annotation, defines a hierarchically organized set of general-purpose communicative functions. The automatic recognition of these functions, although practically unexplored, is re…

Mapping the Dialog Act Annotations of the LEGO Corpus into ISO 24617-2 Communicative Functions

ISO 24617-2, the ISO standard for dialog act annotation, sets the ground for more comparable research in the area. However, the amount of data annotated according to it is still reduced, which impairs the development of …

Annotation and Classification of French Feedback Communicative Functions

Language-Based Automatic Assessment of Cognitive and Communicative Functions Related to Parkinson's Disease

We explore the use of natural language processing and machine learning for detecting evidence of Parkinson{'}s disease from transcribed speech of subjects who are describing everyday tasks. Experiments reveal the difficu…