Universal Discourse: Towards a multilingual model of discourse relations.

Abstract

The talk will discuss a research project proposal aiming to create and evaluate the model of Universal Discourse: a unified, multilingual, corpus-based representation of text as a whole, going beyond the meaning of individual sentences to the level of inter-sentential semantic connections.

This project aims to integrate and expand upon the ISO 24617-8 standard which outlines the representation of such relations. The model will be used to re-annotate a set of existing discourse corpora, previously annotated under varying representation standards.

This approach aims to produce a harmonized dataset, which will be used for the implementation of several prototypes of discourse parsers intended to test the applicability of the model to computational processing.

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Date
Jun 12, 2024 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM