The effect of domain knowledge and implicitation on discourse relation inferences

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI:10.5210/dad.2022.202

Marian Marchal, Merel C. J. Scholman, Vera Demberg

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Abstract

Readers adopt their domain knowledge to make inferences about information that is left implicit in the text. The present research investigates the role of domain knowledge in discourse relation interpretation, as this has not been examined experimentally in previous work. We compare interpretations of experts from the field of economics and biomedical sciences in texts from within and outside of their domain of expertise. The results show that high-knowledge readers are better at inferring the correct relation interpretation compared to low-knowledge readers. This effect was stronger in relations that contained a connective in the original text than in relations that were originally implicit. The study provides insight on the impact of background knowledge on discourse relation inferencing and how readers interpret discourse relations when they lack the required domain knowledge.

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领域知识和隐含对话语关系推理的影响

读者利用他们的领域知识对文本中隐含的信息进行推断。本研究探讨了领域知识在语篇关系解释中的作用，因为这在以前的工作中没有得到实验的检验。我们比较了来自经济学和生物医学领域的专家在其专业领域内外的文本中的解释。结果表明，高知识阅读者比低知识阅读者更能推断出正确的关系解释。这种效应在原始文本中包含连接的关系中比在原始文本中隐含的关系中更强。本研究揭示了背景知识对语篇关系推理的影响，以及读者在缺乏所需领域知识的情况下如何解释语篇关系。

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Dialogue and Discourse Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

CiteScore

1.90

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0.00%

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审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： D&D seeks previously unpublished, high quality articles on the analysis of discourse and dialogue that contain -experimental and/or theoretical studies related to the construction, representation, and maintenance of (linguistic) context -linguistic analysis of phenomena characteristic of discourse and/or dialogue (including, but not limited to: reference and anaphora, presupposition and accommodation, topicality and salience, implicature, ---discourse structure and rhetorical relations, discourse markers and particles, the semantics and -pragmatics of dialogue acts, questions, imperatives, non-sentential utterances, intonation, and meta--communicative phenomena such as repair and grounding) -experimental and/or theoretical studies of agents'' information states and their dynamics in conversational interaction -new analytical frameworks that advance theoretical studies of discourse and dialogue -research on systems performing coreference resolution, discourse structure parsing, event and temporal -structure, and reference resolution in multimodal communication -experimental and/or theoretical results yielding new insight into non-linguistic interaction in -communication -work on natural language understanding (including spoken language understanding), dialogue management, -reasoning, and natural language generation (including text-to-speech) in dialogue systems -work related to the design and engineering of dialogue systems (including, but not limited to: -evaluation, usability design and testing, rapid application deployment, embodied agents, affect detection, -mixed-initiative, adaptation, and user modeling). -extremely well-written surveys of existing work. Highest priority is given to research reports that are specifically written for a multidisciplinary audience. The audience is primarily researchers on discourse and dialogue and its associated fields, including computer scientists, linguists, psychologists, philosophers, roboticists, sociologists.