Coherence in Natural Language - Table of Contents

June 2006
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Coherence in Natural Language
Data Structures and Applications
Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson

	Acknowledgments	vii

1.	Introduction	1

1.1	Representations and Data Structures for Discourse Coherence	2

1.2	Discourse Coherence and Psycholinguistic Processing	4

1.3	Discourse Coherence and the Importance of Document Segments	5

1.4	Cognitive Science and Natural Language Engineering	6

2.	Representing Discourse Coherence: Corpus-Based Analysis	9

2.1	Introduction	9

2.2	Current Approaches to Representing Discourse Structure	14

2.3	Collecting a Database of Texts Annotated with Coherence Relations	22

2.4	Data Structures for Representing Coherence Relations	41

2.5	Statistics	53

2.6	Conclusion	67

3.	Discourse Coherence and Pronoun Resolution	69

3.1	Introduction	69

3.2	Accounts of Pronoun Processing	69

3.3	Experiment 1	73

3.4	Experiment 2	78

3.5	Conclusions	83

	Appendix A	84

4.	Coherence Structure and Discourse Segment Rankings	87

4.1	Introduction	87

4.2	Approaches to Sentence Ranking	88

4.3	Coherence-Based Sentence Ranking Revisited	90

4.4	Experiments	102

4.5	Discussion	107

4.6	Conclusion	112

5.	General Conclusion	115

5.1	Data Structures for Representing Discourse Coherence	115

5.2	Discourse Coherence and Pronoun Processing	118

5.3	Discourse Coherence and Discourse Segment Rankings	119

	Notes	121

	References	125

	Index	133

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