Lecture 19: computational discourse (prof. Bonnie Webber)

Discourse structures and language technologies: computational discourse. What is discourse? Discourse and sentence sequences. Discourse and language features. Discourse structures. Current computational discourse modelling. Topic structure and segmentation. Functional structure and segmentation. Examples. (Lexicalized) Coherence relations. Other lexicalizations of discourse relations. No discourse relations. Discourse-enhanced Statistical Machine Translation.