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The Conversational Discourse Unit: Identification and Its Role in Conversational Turn-taking Management 会话话语单元:识别及其在会话转向管理中的作用
Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2023-11-04 DOI: 10.5210/dad.2023.203
Junfei Hu, Liesbeth Degand
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Exploring the Sensitivity to Alternative Signals of Coherence Relations 探讨相干关系对替代信号的敏感性
Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.5210/dad.2023.202
Ekaterina Tskhovrebova, Sandrine Zufferey, Pascal Gygax
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 Coherence relations between elements of discourse can be signaled by linguistic devices such as connectives and/or alternative signals. While the use and comprehension of connectives have been studied in different categories of speakers, less is known about the functioning of alternative signals of coherence relations, especially in younger populations. In the current study, we aim to examine the sensitivity of French-speaking teenagers to the alternative signals of list relation (words such as plusieurs ‘several’ and différents ‘various’), combined with connectives varying in frequency and signaling two types of coherence relations (addition: en plus, en outre; consequence: donc, ainsi). Our results reveal that, as early as in teenage years, speakers are sensitive (i.e., they produce list continuation sentences) to alternative signals of list relation. Furthermore, the inference of list relation is not significantly changed when an alternative signal is combined with the more frequent additive connective en plus. However, this inference is inhibited by the less frequent additive connective en outre, and is almost completely hindered by the consequence connectives donc and ainsi. Overall, these results show that alternative list signals are an important source for the inference of the list relation, even in the presence of more salient signals of coherence such as connectives.
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Scoring Coreference Chains with Split-Antecedent Anaphors 分词前指的共参照链评分
Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI: 10.5210/dad.2023.201
Silviu Paun, Juntao Yu, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Massimo Poesio
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Form and Function of Connectives in Chinese Conversational Speech 汉语会话言语中连接词的形式与功能
Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI: 10.5210/dad.2023.104
Nien-Heng Wu, S. Tseng
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Bullshit, Pragmatic Deception, and Natural Language Processing 胡扯,实用主义欺骗和自然语言处理
Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2023-05-24 DOI: 10.5210/dad.2023.103
Oliver Deck
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Attribution and the discourse structure of reports 报道的归因与语篇结构
Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2023-04-13 DOI: 10.5210/dad.2023.102
E. Maier
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Characterizing the Response Space of Questions: data and theory 表征问题的回答空间:数据与理论
Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.5210/dad.2022.203
J. Ginzburg, Zulipiye Yusupujiang, Chuyuan Li, Kexin Ren, A. Kucharska, P. Lupkowski
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The effect of domain knowledge and implicitation on discourse relation inferences 领域知识和隐含对话语关系推理的影响
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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Lexical Acquisition during Dialogues through Implicit Confirmation 通过隐性确认的对话词汇习得
Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI: 10.5210/dad.2022.104
Kazunori Komatani, Kohei Ono, Ryu Takeda, Eric Nichols, Mikio Nakano
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Scoring Coreference Chains with Split-Antecedent Anaphors 分词前指的共参照链评分
Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2022-05-24 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2205.12323
Silviu Paun, Juntao Yu, N. Moosavi, Massimo Poesio
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