Dialogue systems are a popular natural language processing (NLP) task as it is promising in
real-life applications. It is also a complicated task since many NLP tasks deserving study are …

2.1 Disfluency or repair? Levelt's legacy 10 2.2 Holistic definitions of fluency 13 2.3
Componential approaches to fluency and disfluency 14 2.3. 1 Qualitative components of …

This paper summarizes the latest, final version of ISO standard 24617-2 “Semantic
annotation framework, Part 2: Dialogue acts”. Compared to the preliminary version ISO DIS …

An increasing number of researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Engineering
face the prospect of having to work with entire texts, rather than individual sentences. While …

Discourse markers and their functions have been modeled through a large number of very
diverse frameworks. Most of these models target written language and the discourse …

It is generally acknowledged that discourse markers are used differently in speech and
writing, yet many general descriptions and most annotation frameworks are written-based …

Background Identification of discourse relations, such as causal and contrastive relations,
between situations mentioned in text is an important task for biomedical text-mining. A …

We present the RST Signalling Corpus (Das et al. in RST signalling corpus, LDC2015T10.
https://catalog. ldc. upenn. edu/LDC2015T10, 2015), a corpus annotated for signals of …

This paper presents the results obtained by the MELODI team for the three tasks proposed
within the DISRPT 2023 shared task on discourse: segmentation, connective identification …

We present highlights from our work on enriching the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB), to
be released to the community in Fall 2018 as the PDTB-3. We have increased its coverage …