| Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
Antagonist |
| 1/21 |
Discourse Referents |
Nathan Gilbert |
- |
| 1/28 |
[Woods, 1978] W.A. Woods. Semantics and quantification in natural
language question answering.
|
Cecily Heiner |
- |
| 2/4 |
[Charniak, 1983] Eugene Charniak. Passing Markers: A Theory of Contextual Influence in Language Comprehension, Cognitive Science, 7,
pp. 171-190. |
John Tabet |
Sid |
| 2/11 |
[Grosz, Joshi, and Weinstein, 1995]. Centering: A Framework for Modeling the Local Coherence of Discourse. Computational Linguistics, 21 (2), pp. 203-226 |
Adam Teichert |
Jags |
| 2/18 |
[Mann and Thompson, 1988]. Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization. Text 8 (3), pp. 243-281, 1988. |
Ruihong Huang |
Amit |
| 2/25 |
[Hobbs, 1979] Coherence and Coreference |
Nathan Gilbert |
Youngjun |
| 3/4 |
[Grosz and Sidner, 1986]. Attention, Intention, and the Structure
of Discourse. Computational Linguistics, 12 (3), pp. 175-204, 1986. |
David Price |
John |
| 3/11 |
[Schank, 1980]. Schank, R. Language and Memory. Cognitive Science, 4, pp. 243-284, 1980. |
Sid |
Ruihong |
| 3/18 |
SPRING BREAK |
| 3/25 |
[Lakoff and Johnson 1980] Metaphors we live by |
Nathan Gilbert |
Adam |
| 4/1 |
[Martin et al., 1986] P. Martin, D. Appelt and
F. Pereira. Transportability and generality in a
natural-language interface system.
|
Youngjun Kim |
Cecily |
| 4/8 |
[McKeown 1986] Kathleen McKeown. Discourse strategies for generating
natural-language text |
Amit Goyal |
Dave |
| 4/15 |
[Lehnert, 1982] Plot units and narrative summarization |
Jags |
Nathan |
| 4/22 |
[Friedman 1986] Automatic Structuring of Sublanguage Information |
Olga |
Sean |
| 4/29 |
Hobbs - Abduction--for discussion (9 pages), Journal article (74 pages) |
Dave |
Amit |
| 5/6 |
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