Does Tectogrammatics Help the Annotation of Discourse?

How Dependency Trees and Tectogrammatics Help Annotating Coreference and Bridging Relations in Prague Dependency Treebank

Does syntax help discourse segmentation? Not so much

Discourse segmentation is the first step in building discourse parsers. Most work on discourse segmentation does not scale to real-world discourse parsing across languages, for two reasons: (i) models rely on constituent…

How does discourse affect Spanish-Chinese Translation? A case study based on a Spanish-Chinese parallel corpus

With their huge speaking populations in the world, Spanish and Chinese occupy important positions in linguistic studies. Since the two languages come from different language systems, the translation between Spanish and C…

Design Choices in Crowdsourcing Discourse Relation Annotations: The Effect of Worker Selection and Training

Obtaining linguistic annotation from novice crowdworkers is far from trivial. A case in point is the annotation of discourse relations, which is a complicated task. Recent methods have obtained promising results by extra…

Analyzing Coreference and Bridging in Product Reviews

Product reviews may have complex discourse including coreference and bridging relations to a main product, competing products, and interacting products. Current approaches to aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) and op…