| Date | Paper |
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Fall 2001 |
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| Oct 17 | [Mann and Thompson, 1988]. Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization. Text 8 (3), pp. 243-281, 1988. |
| Oct 24 | [Grosz and Sidner, 1986]. Attention, Intention, and the Structure of Discourse. Computational Linguistics, 12 (3), pp. 175-204, 1986. |
| Oct 31 | [Moore and Pollack, 1992]. A Problem for RST: The Need for Multi-Level
Discourse Analysis. Computational Linguistics, 18 (4), pp. 537-544.
[Moser and Moore, 1996]. Toward a Synthesis of Two Accounts of Discourse Structure. Computational Linguistics, 22 (3), pp. 409-419. |
| Nov 7 | [Hobbs, 1990]. The Coherence and Structure of Discourse. Literature and cognition. CSLI Lecture Notes number 21, pp. 83-130. |
| Nov 14 | Lascarides and Asher, 1993] Temporal Interpretation, Discourse Relations and Commonsense Entailment. Linguistics and Philosophy, 16.5, pp. 437-493, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland. |
| Nov 28 | [Bateman and Rondhuis, 1997]. Coherence relations: towards a general
specification. Discourse Processes, vol. 24, pp. 3-49.
See also corresponding Technical Report. |
Spring 2002 |
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| Jan 16 | [Hobbs et al., 1993]. Interpretation as Abduction. Artificial Intelligence, vol 63. pp. 69-142. |
| Feb 6 | Grosz, Joshi, and Weinstein, 1995]. Centering: A Framework for Modeling the Local Coherence of Discourse. Computational Linguistics, 21 (2), pp. 203-226. |
| Feb 13 | [Morris and Hirst, 1991]. Lexical cohesion computed by thesaural relations as an indicator of the structure of text. Computational Linguistics, 17 (1), pp. 21-48. |
| Feb 27 | [Strube and Hahn, 1999]. Functional Centering - Grounding Referential Coherence in Information Structure. Computational Linguistics, 25 (3), pp. 309-344. |
| Mar 6 | [Niyu Ge, John Hale, and Eugene Charniak, 1998] A
statistical approach to anaphora resolution, Proceedings of the
Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora.
[Eugene Charniak, 2001]. Unsupervised learning of name structure from coreference data Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 48-54. |
| Mar 20 | [Hearst, 1997]. TextTiling: Segmenting Text into Multi-Paragraph Subtopic Passages. Computational Linguistics, 23 (1), pp. 33-64. |
| Mar 27 | [D. Beeferman, A. Berger, and J. Lafferty, 1999] Statistical models for text segmentation, Machine Learning, special issue on Natural Language Learning, C. Cardie and R. Mooney eds., 34(1-3), pp. 177-210, 1999. |
| Apr 3 | [Grosz, Barbara; Scott, Donia; Kamp, Hans; Cohen, Phil; Giachin, Egidio, 1997] Chapter 6 of Discourse and Dialogue: Survey of the State of theArt in Human Language Technology, R. Cole, J. Mariani, H. Uszkoreit, A. Zaenen, & V. Zue(eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1997. |
| Apr 10 | [Stolcke, Ries, Coccaro, Shriberg, Bates, Jurafsky, Taylor, Martin, Van Ess-Dykema, Meteer, 2000]. Dialogue Act Modeling for Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Conversational Speech. Computational Linguistics, 26 (3), pp. 339-374. |
| Apr 17 | [Wiebe, J.M., O'Hara, T.P., Ohrstrom-Sandgren, T. and McKeever, K.J. 1998] An Empirical Approach to Temporal Reference Resolution, JAIR (9), pages 247-293. |
| Apr 24 | [Satinder Singh, Diane Litman, Michael Kearns and Marilyn Walker, 2002] Optimizing Dialogue Management with Reinforcement Learning: Experiments with the NJFun System. Revised version to appear in 2002 in Journal ofArtificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). |