CIS630 - Topics in NLP (Fall 1997)

Computational Approaches to Discourse and Dialogue

Administration

• Schedule - Fall 1997
• Project Ideas

Class Notes

• Lecture 2: Discourse Structure and RST (9 Sept).
• Lecture 3: TAG for discourse and a feature-structure view of cue phrases (12 Sept).
• Lecture 5: Lascarides and Asher on Discoure Processing (18 Sept).
• Lecture 7: Grosz and Sidner on Discourse Structure (26 Sept).
• Lecture 8: RDA -- Reconciling G&S and RST (30 Sept).
• Lecture 9: POCL Planning, Reactive Planning and Text Structure (2 Oct).
• Lecture 10: Centering, Part I (10 Oct).
• Lecture 15: Information Structure (28 Oct).
• Lecture 17: Text Summarization (4 Nov).
• Lecture 22: Reference as Collaboration (20 Nov).

Other Sites for Computational Discourse/Dialogue

• Discourse Resource Initiative
• Survey: State of the Art in Human Language Technology (1996)
• Latest DAMSL Dialogue Annotation Manual, University of Rochester (October 1997)

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