Edited by Anton Benz, Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein
The analysis of discourse is probably one of the most complex problems of linguistics. It can be approached from many different directions, involving a large variety of different methods. This volume unites psycholinguistic studies, investigations of logical and computational models of discourse,… read more
We probe a new approach to linguistic areas. Instead of similarity of a feature across languages of the area, we focus on its adaptation to the area. Adaptation is a set of changes and/or retentions in a language towards, but not necessarily into, similarity with the other languages of the area.… read more
Argumentation mining is a subfield of Computational Linguistics that aims (primarily) at automatically finding arguments and their structural components in natural language text. We provide a short introduction to this field, intended for an audience with a limited computational background.… read more
Automatic discourse parsing refers to the identification of coherence relations
and deriving a structural description for a text. Such parsers can derive much
information from the presence of surface cues, especially connectives. These
lexical signals, however, are ambiguous: Many have… read more
Discourse analysis is a sub–field of linguistics which can be approached from many different directions, involving a large variety of different methods. In most of the work reported in this book, discourse refers to written monologue. For the purposes of this introduction, we thus largely… read more
Identifying the presence of coherence relations automatically is known to be a difficult task for a number of reasons. One of the problems involved has so far received only little attention: Connectives (the primary source of information for relation analysis) can be complex, i.e. consist of several… read more
