Discourse coherence: Concurrent explicit and implicit relations

Hannah Rohde; Alexander Johnson; Nathan Schneider; Bonnie Webber

Discourse coherence: Concurrent explicit and implicit relations

Hannah Rohde, Alexander Johnson, Nathan Schneider, Bonnie Webber

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Theories of discourse coherence posit relations between discourse segments as a key feature of coherent text. Our prior work suggests that multiple discourse relations can be simultaneously operative between two segments for reasons not predicted by the literature. Here we test how this joint presence can lead participants to endorse seemingly divergent conjunctions (e.g., but and so) to express the link they see between two segments. These apparent divergences are not symptomatic of participant naïveté or bias, but arise reliably from the concurrent availability of multiple relations between segments – some available through explicit signals and some via inference. We believe that these new results can both inform future progress in theoretical work on discourse coherence and lead to higher levels of performance in discourse parsing

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	Association for Computational Linguistics
Place of Publication	Melbourne
Pages	2257–2267
Volume	1
Edition	Long Papers
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - Jul 2018
Event	56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 15 Jul 2018 → 20 Jul 2018 http://acl2018.org/

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Conference	56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Abbreviated title	ACL 2018
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	15/07/18 → 20/07/18
Internet address	http://acl2018.org/

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Rohde, H., Johnson, A., Schneider, N., & Webber, B. (2018). Discourse coherence: Concurrent explicit and implicit relations. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Association for Computational Linguistics (Long Papers ed., Vol. 1, pp. 2257–2267). Advance online publication. https://aclanthology.info/papers/P18-1210/p18-1210

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Rohde, H, Johnson, A, Schneider, N & Webber, B 2018, Discourse coherence: Concurrent explicit and implicit relations. in Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Association for Computational Linguistics . Long Papers edn, vol. 1, Melbourne, pp. 2257–2267, 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15/07/18. <https://aclanthology.info/papers/P18-1210/p18-1210>

Discourse coherence: Concurrent explicit and implicit relations. / Rohde, Hannah; Johnson, Alexander; Schneider, Nathan et al.
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Association for Computational Linguistics . Vol. 1 Long Papers. ed. Melbourne, 2018. p. 2257–2267.

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