Discourse strategies for generating natural-language text
Artificial Intelligence
Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
Computational Linguistics
Memory and context for language interpretation
Memory and context for language interpretation
Getting and keeping the center of attention
A symposium on future directions in natural language processing on Challenges in natural language processing
An algorithm for pronominal anaphora resolution
Computational Linguistics
Centering: a framework for modeling the local coherence of discourse
Computational Linguistics
Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic
Computational Linguistics
Toward a synthesis of two accounts of discourse structure
Computational Linguistics
Toward an aposynthesis of topic continuity and intrasentential anaphora
Computational Linguistics
The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.
The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.
On coreferring: coreference in MUC and related annotation schemes
Computational Linguistics
Japanese discourse and the process of centering
Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
A corpus-based evaluation of centering and pronoun resolution
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on computational anaphora resolution
A reformulation of Rule 2 of centering theory
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on computational anaphora resolution
A corpus-based investigation of definite description use
Computational Linguistics
Functional centering: grounding referential coherence in information structure
Computational Linguistics
Learning features that predict cue usage
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
Never look back: an alternative to centering
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
A preliminary model of centering in dialog
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Long distance pronominalisation and global focus
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
A property-sharing constraint in Centering
ACL '86 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A centering approach to pronouns
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Providing a unified account of definite noun phrases in discourse
ACL '83 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Intention-based segmentation: human reliability and correlation with linguistic cues
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Evaluating discourse processing algorithms
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
An integrated framework for text planning and pronominalisation
INLG '00 Proceedings of the first international conference on Natural language generation - Volume 14
Learning to resolve bridging references
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Modeling local coherence: an entity-based approach
ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Improving LSA-based summarization with anaphora resolution
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Two uses of anaphora resolution in summarization
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Modeling local coherence: An entity-based approach
Computational Linguistics
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
Evaluating centering for information ordering using corpora
Computational Linguistics
Discourse annotation and semantic annotation in the GNOME corpus
DiscAnnotation '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation
EACL '06 Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
Evaluating Centering for sentence ordering in two new domains
NAACL-Short '06 Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Gesture salience as a hidden variable for coreference resolution and keyframe extraction
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Computational Linguistics
JSAI'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
Creating local coherence: an empirical assessment
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Entity-based local coherence modelling using topological fields
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Empirical methods in natural language generation
A comparative analysis of centering-based algorithms for pronoun resolution in Portuguese
IBERAMIA'10 Proceedings of the 12th Ibero-American conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
Discourse constraints for document compression
Computational Linguistics
Zero anaphora resolution in chinese discourse
CICLing'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Computational generation of referring expressions: A survey
Computational Linguistics
Evaluating salience metrics for the context-adequate realization of discourse referents
ENLG '11 Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Detecting breakdowns in local coherence in the writing of Chinese English learners
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
To what extent does sentence-internal realisation reflect discourse context?: a study on word order
EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Discourse structure and computation: past, present and future
ACL '12 Proceedings of the ACL-2012 Special Workshop on Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries
A two-step zero pronoun resolution by reducing candidate cardinality
PRICAI'12 Proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim international conference on Trends in Artificial Intelligence
Discourse structure and language technology
Natural Language Engineering
Generating natural language descriptions from OWL ontologies: the natural OWL system
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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Centering theory is the best-known framework for theorizing about local coherence and salience; however, its claims are articulated in terms of notions which are only partially specified, such as "utterance," "realization," or "ranking." A great deal of research has attempted to arrive at more detailed specifications of these parameters of the theory; as a result, the claims of centering can be instantiated in many different ways. We investigated in a systematic fashion the effect on the theory's claims of these different ways of setting the parameters. Doing this required, first of all, clarifying what the theory's claims are (one of our conclusions being that what has become known as "Constraint 1" is actually a central claim of the theory). Secondly, we had to clearly identify these parametric aspects: For example, we argue that the notion of "pronoun" used in Rule 1 should be considered a parameter. Thirdly, we had to find appropriate methods for evaluating these claims. We found that while the theory's main claim about salience and pronominalization, Rule 1—a preference for pronominalizing the backward-looking center (CB)—is verified with most instantiations, Constraint 1–a claim about (entity) coherence and CB uniqueness—is much more instantiation-dependent: It is not verified if the parameters are instantiated according to very mainstream views ("vanilla instantiation"), it holds only if indirect realization is allowed, and is violated by between 20% and 25% of utterances in our corpus even with the most favorable instantiations. We also found a trade-off between Rule 1, on the one hand, and Constraint 1 and Rule 2, on the other: Setting the parameters to minimize the violations of local coherence leads to increased violations of salience, and vice versa. Our results suggest that "entity" coherence—continuous reference to the same entities—must be supplemented at least by an account of relational coherence.