On Temporality in Discourse Annotation: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2017-07-19 DOI:10.5087/DAD.2017.201

J. Evers-Vermeul, J. Hoek, Merel C. J. Scholman

引用次数: 17

Abstract

Temporal information is one of the prominent features that determine the coherence in a discourse. That is why we need an adequate way to deal with this type of information during discourse annotation. In this paper, we will argue that temporal order is a relational rather than a segment-specific property, and that it is a cognitively plausible notion: temporal order is expressed in the system of linguistic markers and is relevant in both acquisition and language processing. This means that temporal relations meet the requirements set by the Cognitive approach of Coherence Relations (CCR) to be considered coherence relations, and that CCR would need a way to distinguish temporal relations within its annotation system. We will present merits and drawbacks of different options of reaching this objective and argue in favor of adding temporal order as a new dimension to CCR.

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论话语注释中的时间性:理论与实践的思考

时间信息是决定语篇连贯的重要特征之一。这就是为什么我们需要一个适当的方法来处理这类信息在话语注释。在本文中，我们将论证时间顺序是一种关系属性，而不是特定于语段的属性，这是一个认知上合理的概念:时间顺序在语言标记系统中表达，在习得和语言加工中都是相关的。这意味着时间关系满足连贯关系认知方法(Cognitive approach of Coherence relations, CCR)将时间关系视为连贯关系的要求，并且CCR需要一种在其注释系统中区分时间关系的方法。我们将介绍实现这一目标的不同选择的优点和缺点，并赞成将时间顺序作为CCR的一个新维度。

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Dialogue and Discourse Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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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期刊介绍： D&D seeks previously unpublished, high quality articles on the analysis of discourse and dialogue that contain -experimental and/or theoretical studies related to the construction,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.