Getting computers to talk like you and me
Getting computers to talk like you and me
Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
Computational Linguistics
A stochastic parts program and noun phrase parser for unrestricted text
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
A computational theory of the function of clue words in argument understanding
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The intonational structuring of discourse
ACL '86 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Now let's talk about now: identifying cue phrases intonationally
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Disambiguating cue phrases in text and speech
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
HLT '91 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
An architecture for voice dialog systems based on prolog-style theorem proving
Computational Linguistics
Using linguistic and discourse structures to derive topics
CIKM '95 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Communications of the ACM
Statistical Models for Text Segmentation
Machine Learning - Special issue on natural language learning
Discourse Particles and Discourse Functions
Machine Translation
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Dialogue act modeling for automatic tagging and recognition of conversational speech
Computational Linguistics
The rhetorical parsing of unrestricted texts: a surface-based approach
Computational Linguistics
Empirical studies in discourse
Computational Linguistics
TextTiling: segmenting text into multi-paragraph subtopic passages
Computational Linguistics
Discourse segmentation by human and automated means
Computational Linguistics
Review of "Using language" by Herbert H. Clark. Cambridge University Press 1996.
Computational Linguistics
Conceptions of limited attention and discourse focus
Computational Linguistics
The rhetorical parsing of natural language texts
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Intonational boundaries, speech repairs and discourse markers: modeling spoken dialog
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Dialogue act tagging with Transformation-Based Learning
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Automated scoring using a hybrid feature identification technique
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Characterizing and recognizing spoken corrections in human-computer dialogue
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Intention-based segmentation: human reliability and correlation with linguistic cues
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Combining multiple knowledge sources for discourse segmentation
ACL '95 Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Investigating cue selection and placement in tutorial discourse
ACL '95 Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Multi-paragraph segmentation of expository text
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Linear Text Segmentation
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Statistical models for topic segmentation
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Linear text segmentation using a dynamic programming algorithm
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Discourse segmentation of multi-party conversation
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Mining discourse markers for Chinese textual summarization
NAACL-ANLP-AutoSum '00 Proceedings of the 2000 NAACL-ANLPWorkshop on Automatic summarization - Volume 4
Building a discourse-tagged corpus in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory
SIGDIAL '01 Proceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue - Volume 16
Toward a large spontaneous Mandarin dialogue corpus
SIGDIAL '01 Proceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue - Volume 16
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A Model of Discourse Segmentation and Segment Title Assignment for Lecture Speech Indexing
IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
Combining lexical, syntactic and prosodic cues for improved online dialog act tagging
Computer Speech and Language
Profiling Student Interactions in Threaded Discussions with Speech Act Classifiers
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts That Work
First Steps Towards the Automatic Construction of Argument-Diagrams from Real Discussions
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2006
Mining discourse markers for Chinese textual summarization
NAACL-ANLP-AutoSum '00 Proceedings of the 2000 NAACL-ANLP Workshop on Automatic Summarization
Investigating the portability of corpus-derived cue phrases for dialogue act classification
COLING '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Using a probabilistic model of discourse relations to investigate word order variation
DiscAnnotation '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation
Cueing the virtual storyteller: analysis of cue phrase usage in fairy tales
ENLG '07 Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Bayesian unsupervised topic segmentation
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Speaking without knowing what to say…or when to end
SIGdial '08 Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Cue phrase classification using machine learning
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Connective-based local coherence analysis: a lexicon for recognizing causal relationships
STEP '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Semantics in Text Processing
Using syntax to disambiguate explicit discourse connectives in text
ACLShort '09 Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers
Towards a multidimensional semantics of discourse markers in spoken dialogue
IWCS-8 '09 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics
Reformulating discourse connectives for non-expert readers
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Towards identifying unresolved discussions in student online forums
IUNLPBEA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Fifth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Automatic extraction of cue phrases for cross-corpus dialogue act classification
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Automatic identification of discourse markers in dialogues: An in-depth study of like and well
Computer Speech and Language
How can you say such things?!?: recognizing disagreement in informal political argument
LSM '11 Proceedings of the Workshop on Languages in Social Media
On the identification of temporal clauses
MICAI'06 Proceedings of the 5th Mexican international conference on Artificial Intelligence
Affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue
Computational Linguistics
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Cue phrases are linguistic expressions such as now and well that function as explicit indicators of the structure of a discourse. For example, now may signal the beginning of a subtopic or a return to a previous topic, while well may mark subsequent material as a response to prior material, or as an explanatory comment. However, while cue phrases may convey discourse structure, each also has one or more alternate uses. While incidentally may be used sententially as an adverbial, for example, the discourse use initiates a digression. Although distinguishing discourse and sentential uses of cue phrases is critical to the interpretation and generation of discourse, the question of how speakers and hearers accomplish this disambiguation is rarely addressed.This paper reports results of empirical studies on discourse and sentential uses of cue phrases, in which both text-based and prosodic features were examined for disambiguating power. Based on these studies, it is proposed that discourse versus sentential usage may be distinguished by intonational features, specifically, pitch accent and prosodic phrasing. A prosodic model that characterizes these distinctions is identified. This model is associated with features identifiable from text analysis, including orthography and part of speech, to permit the application of the results of the prosodic analysis to the generation of appropriate intonational features for discourse and sentential uses of cue phrases in synthetic speech.