2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

L-LIN/01 (GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

PRODANOF IRINA RALUCA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Knowledge of fundamentals of computational linguistics is recommended

Discourse analysis is one of the most challenging tasks of natural language processing. Many applications as information extraction, Open Domain Question Answering, opinion and emotion mining, narratives, etc. need discourse analysis. Different theoretical approaches and computational models concerning aspects of discourse analysis (discourse structure, coherence and cohesion, anaphora resolution, information structure, etc.) will be presented as well as subjectivity mining and event and temporal relations detection.

1. Computational models of discourse representation: Rhetoric Structure Theory (RST), Discourse Representation Theory (DRT), attention and intention in discourse;
2. Cohesion and coherence;
3. Anaphora resolution
4. Information structure: topic, focus, information packaging;
5. Subjectivity: opinion and emotion mining;
6. Annotation schemata: The Penn Discourse TreeBank?
7. Attribution
8. Events and temporal relations in discourse;
9. Event anaphora

Lectures

M.A.K. Halliday & Ruqaiya Hasan, 1976. Cohesion in English, Longman Group Ltd

Jerry R. Hobbs, 1985. On the Coherence and Structure of Discourse, CSLI, Stanford University.

Jerry R. Hobbs and Michael Agar, 1985. The Coherence of Incoherent Discourse, Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Florian Wolf, Edward Gibson, 2005. Representing Discourse Coherence. A Corpus-Based Study, in ACL

Grosz Barbara and Candace L. Sidner, 1986. Attention, Intentions and the Structure of Discourse. Computational Linguistics 12.3

Eva Hajicova & Petr Sgall.1980. A dependency based specification of topic and focus. Statistical Methods in Linguistics, 1(2):435-454

Eva Hajicova & Petr Sgall.2001. Topic-focus and salience. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the ACL.

Eva Hajicova, Petr Sgall and Hana Skoumalova.1993. Identifying topic and focus by an automatic procedure. Proceedings of the conference of EACL, Utrecht.

Eva Hajicova.1993. Issues of Sentence Structure and Discourse Patterns, cap.2: Sentence structure and communication: focus, negation and presupposition

Enric Vallduvì. 1990. The Information Component. PhD? thesis. University of Pennsylvania

Enric Vallduvì & Elisabet Engdahl.1996. The Linguistic Realization of Information Packaging. Linguistics, 34.

Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1988. Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization. Text, 8 (3), 243-281.

Taboada, Maite and William C. Mann. 2006. Rhetorical Structure Theory: Looking back and moving ahead. Discourse Studies, 8 (3), 423-459.
http://www.sfu.ca/rst/
http://www.sfu.ca/rst/05bibliographies/

Kamp, H. & Reyle, U. (1993): From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to Model-theoretic Semantics of NaturalLanguage?, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

Kamp, H. van Grenabith, J. & Reyle, U., Representation Theory Discourse ,
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q487665206465365

HUMAINE: http://emotion-research.net
Penn Discourse Treebank, http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pdtb/

Inderjeet Mani, James Pustejovsky & Rob Gaizauskas (eds), The Language of Time, Oxford University Press

oral examination
A contribution on an argument related to the topics discussed in the lectures or, in alternative, an annotation exercise on a corpus using an annotation tool. Evaluation and validation of the annotation scheme.

oral examination
A contribution on an argument related to the topics discussed in the lectures or, in alternative, an annotation exercise on a corpus using an annotation tool. Evaluation and validation of the annotation scheme.