Related Publications

Discourse Annotation

Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, and Mary Ellen Okurowski (2002). Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory. In Current Directions in Discourse and Dialogue, Jan van Kuppevelt and Ronnie Smith eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers. To appear.
An earlier version of this paper was published in the Proceedings of the 2nd SIGDIAL Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Eurospeech 2001, Denmark, September 2001.
Daniel Marcu, Magdalena Romera, and Estibaliz Amorrortu (1999). Experiments in Constructing a Corpus of Discourse Trees: Problems, Annotation Choices, Issues. The Workshop on Levels of Representation in Discourse, pages 71-78, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1999.
Daniel Marcu, Estibaliz Amorrortu, and Magdalena Romera (1999). Experiments in Constructing a Corpus of Discourse Trees. The ACL'99 Workshop on Standards and Tools for Discourse Tagging, pages 48-57, Maryland, June 1999.

Daniel Marcu and Abdessamad Echihabi (2002). An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), Philadelphia, PA, July 2002.
Daniel Marcu. The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization. The MIT Press, November 2000. ISBN 0-262-13372-5, $39.95.
Daniel Marcu (2000). The Rhetorical Parsing of Unrestricted Texts: A Surface-Based Approach.Computational Linguistics, 26 (3), pages 395-448.
Daniel Marcu (1999). A decision-based approach to rhetorical parsing. The 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), pages 365-372, Maryland, June 1999.
Daniel Marcu (1997). The Rhetorical Parsing of Natural Language Texts. The Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (ACL'97/EACL'97) pages 96-103, Madrid, Spain, July 7-10, 1997.

Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu (2002). A Noisy-Channel Model for Document Compression. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2002), Philadelphia, PA, July 7-12.
Hal Daume III, Keving Knight, Irene Langkilde-Geary, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada (2002). The Importance of Lexicalized Syntax Models for Natural Language Generation Tasks. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Natural Language Generation. Arden House, NJ, July 1-3.
Lynn Carlson, John M. Conroy, Daniel Marcu, Dianne P. O'Leary, Mary Ellen Okurowski, Anthony Taylor, and William Wong (2001). An Empirical Study of the Relation Between Abstracts, Extracts, and the Discourse Structure of Texts. Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2001), New Orleans, LA, Sept 13-14.
Daniel Marcu. The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization. The MIT Press, November 2000. ISBN 0-262-13372-5, $39.95.
Daniel Marcu (1999). Discourse trees are good indicators of importance in text. In I. Mani and M. Maybury editors, Advances in Automatic Text Summarization, pages 123-136, The MIT Press.

Daniel Marcu, Lynn Carlson, and Maki Watanabe (2000). The Automatic Translation of Discourse Structures. The 1st Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'2000), Seattle, Washington, April 30-May 4, 2000.

Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, Slava Andreyev, and Martin Chodorow (2001). Towards Automatic Classification of Discourse Elements in Essays. Proceedings of ACL-2001, Toulouse, France, July 2001.

Jill Burstein and Daniel Marcu (2000). Towards Using Text Summarization for Essay-Based Feedback. Le 7e Conference Annuelle sur Le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles TALN'2000, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2000.