subject:(discourse processing)

Universiteit Utrecht

1. Oudega, M.H. How Default is Causality-by-Default?.

Degree: 2011, Universiteit Utrecht

URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/210347

► Causal coherence relations seem to have special cognitive status in discourse processing. Even though they take less time to process than other types of coherence… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: discourse processing; discourse semantics; causal coherence

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Oudega, M. H. (2011). How Default is Causality-by-Default?. (Masters Thesis). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/210347

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Oudega, M H. “How Default is Causality-by-Default?.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/210347.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Oudega, M H. “How Default is Causality-by-Default?.” 2011. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Oudega MH. How Default is Causality-by-Default?. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/210347.

Council of Science Editors:

Oudega MH. How Default is Causality-by-Default?. [Masters Thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2011. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/210347

University of Arizona

2. Luri Rodriguez, Ignacio. Listening to the Market: Text Analysis Approaches to Consumer Research .

Degree: 2020, University of Arizona

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/641701

► Language is central to human interaction, thinking, and sense-making. Witty marketing communicators and loquacious consumer research scholars can bend and shape language to great effect… (more)

▼ Language is central to human interaction, thinking, and sense-making. Witty marketing communicators and loquacious consumer research scholars can bend and shape language to great effect and be admired for it. Marketing has traditionally been a diverse discipline, borrowing from many parents and employing a variety of methods or approaches to understanding consumers and the market. This dissertation presents three essays exploring consumer behavior from a perspective influenced by theory and methods from language- and discourse-centric disciplines. The first essay employs ethnographic methods informed by discourse analysis of marketing communications and in-person service encounters to better understand services. We integrate the disconnected research streams of role theory in service encounters and cocreation. Our findings challenge common definitions of a service script, defining instead as the product of imagined service encounters that serve as a template for cocreation in consumers’ minds. The second essay examines U.S. news media on the topic of debt in order to reveal how public discourse frames debt to distribute responsibility and guide action. The data analysis begins at the qualitative level of discourse analysis and hermeneutics, followed by a corpus research approach, complemented with a neural network-based word embedding technique used in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Our findings reveal two dominant metaphors in public debt conversations: debt as weight, and debt as captivity. These metaphors frame the discourse, creating narratives with contrasting assignments of responsibility in the market and proposed marketing actions. The third essay utilizes the same U.S. news articles database of the second paper to answer different research questions. We join a growing and incredibly impactful new stream of consumer research studies harnessing the power of big textual data for marketing insight. We make a methodological contribution by developing and training a topic-detection Bi-directional long short term memory (Bi-LSTM) neural network to classify a large, unstructured corpus. We sequentially ran a dynamic Latent Dietrich Allocation (LDA) to identify the narratives predominant to each type of debt and how they change over the ten-year period (2010-2019). Advisors/Committee Members: Schau, Hope J (advisor), Ghosh, Bikram (committeemember), Taillard, Marie (committeemember), Sias, Rick (committeemember).

Subjects/Keywords: discourse; marketing; natural language processing

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Luri Rodriguez, I. (2020). Listening to the Market: Text Analysis Approaches to Consumer Research . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/641701

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Luri Rodriguez, Ignacio. “Listening to the Market: Text Analysis Approaches to Consumer Research .” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/641701.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Luri Rodriguez, Ignacio. “Listening to the Market: Text Analysis Approaches to Consumer Research .” 2020. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Luri Rodriguez I. Listening to the Market: Text Analysis Approaches to Consumer Research . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2020. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/641701.

Council of Science Editors:

Luri Rodriguez I. Listening to the Market: Text Analysis Approaches to Consumer Research . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/641701

University of Manitoba

3. Fazaluddin, Anjum. The influence of contradicting implication on inference generation in discourse processing: a phantom recollection approach.

Degree: Psychology, 2011, University of Manitoba

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4860

► Many cognitive processes influence how we encode, store, and retrieve what we read. Two processes are considered to affect retrieval from memory: recollection and familiarity.… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: psychology; cognitive; discourse; processing

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Fazaluddin, A. (2011). The influence of contradicting implication on inference generation in discourse processing: a phantom recollection approach. (Masters Thesis). University of Manitoba. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4860

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Fazaluddin, Anjum. “The influence of contradicting implication on inference generation in discourse processing: a phantom recollection approach.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Manitoba. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4860.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Fazaluddin, Anjum. “The influence of contradicting implication on inference generation in discourse processing: a phantom recollection approach.” 2011. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Fazaluddin A. The influence of contradicting implication on inference generation in discourse processing: a phantom recollection approach. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4860.

Council of Science Editors:

Fazaluddin A. The influence of contradicting implication on inference generation in discourse processing: a phantom recollection approach. [Masters Thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4860

University of Sydney

4. Webster, Kellie. Improved Coreference Resolution Using Cognitive Insights .

Degree: 2016, University of Sydney

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15468

► Coreference resolution is the task of extracting referential expressions, or mentions, in text and clustering these by the entity or concept they refer to. The… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: natural language processing; coreference resolution; discourse

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Webster, K. (2016). Improved Coreference Resolution Using Cognitive Insights . (Thesis). University of Sydney. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15468

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Webster, Kellie. “Improved Coreference Resolution Using Cognitive Insights .” 2016. Thesis, University of Sydney. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15468.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Webster, Kellie. “Improved Coreference Resolution Using Cognitive Insights .” 2016. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Webster K. Improved Coreference Resolution Using Cognitive Insights . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Sydney; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15468.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Webster K. Improved Coreference Resolution Using Cognitive Insights . [Thesis]. University of Sydney; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15468

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Universiteit Utrecht

5. Kamalski, J.M.H. Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse.

Degree: 2007, Universiteit Utrecht

URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/22617

► This dissertation focuses on the role of coherence marking in discourse. If we take as an example a 1914 advertisement for Ford, that states: Buy… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Letteren; coherence marking; discourse processing; text comprehension; persuasion; forewarning; subjectivity

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Kamalski, J. M. H. (2007). Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse. (Doctoral Dissertation). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/22617

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kamalski, J M H. “Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse.” 2007. Doctoral Dissertation, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/22617.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kamalski, J M H. “Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse.” 2007. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Kamalski JMH. Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2007. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/22617.

Council of Science Editors:

Kamalski JMH. Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2007. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/22617

University of Edinburgh

6. Binet, Leslie Graham. Focus and coherence in discourse.

Degree: 1985, University of Edinburgh

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6662

► Since Frege, many people have regarded meaning as a relation between an expression in a language and entities in the world, a relation that is… (more)

▼ Since Frege, many people have regarded meaning as a relation between an expression in a language and entities in the world, a relation that is essentially fixed in character, so that in a given context the expression always has the same extension. But it is not clear that this approach is really appropriate for cognitive science, and it has been suggested that what we really need is a "procedural semantics", relating utterances to mental representations rather than to the world (see, for example, Isard and Davies 1972, Johnson-Laird 1977, and Woods 1981). At the same time more attention is being paid to pragmatics and the effects of context on meaning. Both these trends are represented, for example, in Johnson-Laird's theory of mental models (Johnson-Laird 1983), in which representations of discourse content, incorporating pragmatic knowledge of the world, guide the process of semantic interpretation in such a way that sense and reference interact dialectically, as it were. In keeping with this sort of approach, I would like to suggest two methodological principles. First, that linguistic structure should always be explained in terms of its function in the cognitive process (and hence that semantic structure is best explained by something like procedural semantics). Second, that a theory of semantics must include some account of pragmatics. In other words, I would like to move away from the notion that language can be formally characterised as an independent abstract structure, and look at how it is used instead. I think computational linguistics may have something special to contribute in this area, and I shall try to illustrate this with a discussion of some discourse phenomena. This paper looks at how the theory of focus can be used to explain some aspects of discourse coherence, particularly those related to the interpretation of anaphora. Part One is a general discussion of such theories, concentrating on two theories of local focus. Part Two looks in detail at a computer model based on one of these. Part Three presents an extended example of discourse analysis based on the theory of focus, and looks at some ways in which it might be extended.

Subjects/Keywords: Data processing; Discourse analysis; Semantics

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Binet, L. G. (1985). Focus and coherence in discourse. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6662

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Binet, Leslie Graham. “Focus and coherence in discourse.” 1985. Thesis, University of Edinburgh. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6662.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Binet, Leslie Graham. “Focus and coherence in discourse.” 1985. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

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Binet LG. Focus and coherence in discourse. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Edinburgh; 1985. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6662.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Binet LG. Focus and coherence in discourse. [Thesis]. University of Edinburgh; 1985. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6662

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Edith Cowan University

7. Holsgrove, John V. Structure strategy use in children's comprehension of expository texts.

Degree: 2011, Edith Cowan University

URL: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/398

► This study reviewed a body of literature largely written between the mid 1970s and 1990s that was concerned with the rhetorical structure of written expository… (more)

▼ This study reviewed a body of literature largely written between the mid 1970s and 1990s that was concerned with the rhetorical structure of written expository text and its relationship to memory and comprehension. This dissertation follows from an argument that the earlier research often confused memory and comprehension and that it was limited in its attempt to clarify the relationship between text structure and reading comprehension. The current study sought to provide a fuller description of the manner in which schoolchildren of different ages and abilities employ rhetorical structure in the comprehension process. In contrast to the earlier research this study makes a distinction between the top-level structure of a text and the structure of the reader’s meaning. It sought to discover what, if any, was the relationship between the structure of the reader’s comprehension and the top-level structure of the text, the educational stage of the reader, and the reading comprehension ability of the reader. A sample of 229 schoolchildren from Years 5, 7, and 9, and further subdivided by reading ability, was given a task of reading three passages and carrying out an underlining task to identify the seven sentences in each passage that best captured the its overall meaning. The three passages employed were natural passages of text, each approximately 700 words in length, and each with a different top-level structure. Minor adjustments were made in respect of vocabulary and sentence length to match the different age groups within the sample. Each participant’s sentence selections were analysed for a collective structure in an effort to discover any structure employed by the reader in constructing the meaning of the respective text. The effectiveness of structure usage was measured by the degree of coherence captured by the sentence selections. As might be expected, good readers and older children generally performed the task more successfully and effectively than poorer and younger readers. The results indicated, contrary to a common assumption of the earlier research, that the structures employed by the participants reflected two different and distinct categories: content structures which selected information based on association and rhetorical structures based on logical argument. It was subsequently considered that semantic information might be relatively more influential in using content structure whereas syntax might play the more significant role in the use of rhetorical structure. The more able readers generally maximised coherence by combining rhetorical and content structures in the construction of meaning except where a passage was limited to description only. There was a complex relationship between the structure of the text and the structure of the reader’s meaning that reflected a constructivist explanation of reading comprehension. It was found that whilst many children of all ages and ability had a capacity to recognise the various content and rhetorical structures regardless of their relative complexity, that…

Subjects/Keywords: Reading; Comprehension; Discourse processing; Text structure; Curriculum and Instruction

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Holsgrove, J. V. (2011). Structure strategy use in children's comprehension of expository texts. (Thesis). Edith Cowan University. Retrieved from https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/398

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Holsgrove, John V. “Structure strategy use in children's comprehension of expository texts.” 2011. Thesis, Edith Cowan University. Accessed April 16, 2021. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/398.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Holsgrove, John V. “Structure strategy use in children's comprehension of expository texts.” 2011. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Holsgrove JV. Structure strategy use in children's comprehension of expository texts. [Internet] [Thesis]. Edith Cowan University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/398.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Holsgrove JV. Structure strategy use in children's comprehension of expository texts. [Thesis]. Edith Cowan University; 2011. Available from: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/398

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University of Ottawa

8. Kazantseva, Anna. Topical Structure in Long Informal Documents .

Degree: 2014, University of Ottawa

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31612

► This dissertation describes a research project concerned with establishing the topical structure of long informal documents. In this research, we place special emphasis on literary… (more)

▼ This dissertation describes a research project concerned with establishing the topical structure of long informal documents. In this research, we place special emphasis on literary data, but also work with speech transcripts and several other types of data. It has long been acknowledged that discourse is more than a sequence of sentences but, for the purposes of many Natural Language Processing tasks, it is often modelled exactly in that way. In this dissertation, we propose a practical approach to modelling discourse structure, with an emphasis on it being computationally feasible and easily applicable. Instead of following one of the many linguistic theories of discourse structure, we attempt to model the structure of a document as a tree of topical segments. Each segment encapsulates a span that concentrates on a particular topic at a certain level of granularity. Each span can be further sub-segmented based on finer fluctuations of topic. The lowest (most refined) level of segmentation is individual paragraphs. In our model, each topical segment is described by a segment centre – a sentence or a paragraph that best captures the contents of the segment. In this manner, the segmenter effectively builds an extractive hierarchical outline of the document. In order to achieve these goals, we use the framework of factor graphs and modify a recent clustering algorithm, Affinity Propagation, to perform hierarchical segmentation instead of clustering. While it is far from being a solved problem, topical text segmentation is not uncharted territory. The methods developed so far, however, perform least well where they are most needed: on documents that lack rigid formal structure, such as speech transcripts, personal correspondence or literature. The model described in this dissertation is geared towards dealing with just such types of documents. In order to study how people create similar models of literary data, we built two corpora of topical segmentations, one flat and one hierarchical. Each document in these corpora is annotated for topical structure by 3-6 people. The corpora, the model of hierarchical segmentation and software for segmentation are the main contributions of this work.

Subjects/Keywords: Natural Language Processing; topic modelling; topical segmentation; discourse structure

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Kazantseva, A. (2014). Topical Structure in Long Informal Documents . (Thesis). University of Ottawa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31612

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kazantseva, Anna. “Topical Structure in Long Informal Documents .” 2014. Thesis, University of Ottawa. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31612.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kazantseva, Anna. “Topical Structure in Long Informal Documents .” 2014. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Kazantseva A. Topical Structure in Long Informal Documents . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31612.

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Council of Science Editors:

Kazantseva A. Topical Structure in Long Informal Documents . [Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31612

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Louisiana State University

9. Guidry, Jamie Allison. Improving discourse structure identification.

Degree: MSES, Engineering Science and Materials, 2012, Louisiana State University

URL: etd-11142012-040550 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/2209

► Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann et al. 1988), a popular approach for analyzing discourse coherence, suggests that coherent text can be placed into a hierarchical organization… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: discourse; rhetorical structure theory; natural language processing; semantic analysis; parser

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Guidry, J. A. (2012). Improving discourse structure identification. (Masters Thesis). Louisiana State University. Retrieved from etd-11142012-040550 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/2209

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Guidry, Jamie Allison. “Improving discourse structure identification.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Louisiana State University. Accessed April 16, 2021. etd-11142012-040550 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/2209.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Guidry, Jamie Allison. “Improving discourse structure identification.” 2012. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Guidry JA. Improving discourse structure identification. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Louisiana State University; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: etd-11142012-040550 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/2209.

Council of Science Editors:

Guidry JA. Improving discourse structure identification. [Masters Thesis]. Louisiana State University; 2012. Available from: etd-11142012-040550 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/2209

University of Pennsylvania

10. Li, Junyi. From Discourse Structure To Text Specificity: Studies Of Coherence Preferences.

Degree: 2017, University of Pennsylvania

URL: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2443

► To successfully communicate through text, a writer needs to organize information into an understandable and well-structured discourse for the targeted audience. This involves deciding when… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: computational linguistics; discourse; natural language processing; specificity; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

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Li, J. (2017). From Discourse Structure To Text Specificity: Studies Of Coherence Preferences. (Thesis). University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2443

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Li, Junyi. “From Discourse Structure To Text Specificity: Studies Of Coherence Preferences.” 2017. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Accessed April 16, 2021. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2443.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Li, Junyi. “From Discourse Structure To Text Specificity: Studies Of Coherence Preferences.” 2017. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Li J. From Discourse Structure To Text Specificity: Studies Of Coherence Preferences. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Pennsylvania; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2443.

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Council of Science Editors:

Li J. From Discourse Structure To Text Specificity: Studies Of Coherence Preferences. [Thesis]. University of Pennsylvania; 2017. Available from: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2443

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Universiteit Utrecht

11. Mulder, G. Understanding Causal Coherence Relations.

Degree: 2008, Universiteit Utrecht

URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/26077

► The research reported in this dissertation focuses on the cognitive processes and representations involved in understanding causal coherence relations in text. Coherence relations are the… (more)

▼ The research reported in this dissertation focuses on the cognitive processes and representations involved in understanding causal coherence relations in text. Coherence relations are the meaning relations between the information units in the text, such as Cause-Consequence. These relations can be made explicit by means of causal connectives, such as because, or other linguistic indicators of coherence relations. The main assumption underlying this thesis is that causal coherence relations are part of the meaning representation readers construct on the basis of the text. In a series of experiments, the cognitive status of this central assumption is investigated further. The experimental results corroborate the central claim that causal coherence relations are part of the meaning representation of the text, but at the same time allow for a more detailed account of the processes and representation involved in understanding causal coherence relations. To be more precise, the research allows for the conclusion that understanding causal coherence relations is a cognitive process in which readers construct a situational representation of the relation. Three major results contribute to this conclusion. First, evidence is obtained that shows that the presence of explicit indicators (e.g. connectives) influence an inferential process that consists of encoding the general knowledge underlying the causal connection. For instance, when readers interpret the sequence 'John's body was covered with bruises. He had fallen of his bike', the knowledge that falling of a bike may cause bruises is incorporated in the meaning representation. Second, in a recognition experiment evidence was only obtained for a situational representation of the causal coherence relation. Third, the experimental results indicate that readers can make immediate use of knowledge of text structure during the interpretation of causal coherence relations. This knowledge allows them to generate expectations about how the incoming text will be related to the previous context. These results indicate how the understanding of causal relations can be characterized as a process in which the reader integrates explicit text and background knowledge (both general and text structural) to form a situational representation of the information in the text.

Subjects/Keywords: Letteren; text; processing; causality; coherence; causal relations; meaning representation; inference; experiments; connectives; discourse; psycholinguistics

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Mulder, G. (2008). Understanding Causal Coherence Relations. (Doctoral Dissertation). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/26077

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mulder, G. “Understanding Causal Coherence Relations.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/26077.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mulder, G. “Understanding Causal Coherence Relations.” 2008. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Mulder G. Understanding Causal Coherence Relations. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2008. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/26077.

Council of Science Editors:

Mulder G. Understanding Causal Coherence Relations. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2008. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/26077

Universiteit Utrecht

12. Leeuw, L.C. de. The Influence of Implicit Causality and End-state Focus on the Processing of Pronouns in Causal Relations.

Degree: 2009, Universiteit Utrecht

URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/36461

► This study examined two factors that are considered to influence coreferential preferences, viz. 1) Implicit Causality (Koornneef & Van Berkum, 2006; Crinean & Garnham, 2006)… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Letteren; pronouns, discourse, processing, eye tracking, sentence completion, end-state focus, implicit causality

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Leeuw, L. C. d. (2009). The Influence of Implicit Causality and End-state Focus on the Processing of Pronouns in Causal Relations. (Masters Thesis). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/36461

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Leeuw, L C de. “The Influence of Implicit Causality and End-state Focus on the Processing of Pronouns in Causal Relations.” 2009. Masters Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/36461.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Leeuw, L C de. “The Influence of Implicit Causality and End-state Focus on the Processing of Pronouns in Causal Relations.” 2009. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Leeuw LCd. The Influence of Implicit Causality and End-state Focus on the Processing of Pronouns in Causal Relations. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2009. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/36461.

Council of Science Editors:

Leeuw LCd. The Influence of Implicit Causality and End-state Focus on the Processing of Pronouns in Causal Relations. [Masters Thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2009. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/36461

University of Colorado

13. Sikos, Les. Tipping the Balance: The Modulation of ERP Effects at the Syntax-‐Semantics Interface.

Degree: PhD, Linguistics, 2011, University of Colorado

URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/ling_gradetds/27

► This thesis uses event-related brain potential (ERP) methods to explore the hypothesis that syntactic and semantic cues are processed via parallel and fully-interactive processing… (more)

▼ This thesis uses event-related brain potential (ERP) methods to explore the hypothesis that syntactic and semantic cues are processed via parallel and fully-interactive processing streams. This hypothesis offers an alternative to a longstanding and influential view that language comprehension is accomplished by independent, stage-based mechanisms wherein syntactic analysis precedes and guides semantic interpretation (e.g., Frazier, 1978, 1989). I describe results from four ERP experiments that each pit syntactic cues against semantic cues. Experiments 1 and 2 manipulated the relative "strength" of those cues and found that the conflict's outcome is determined by cue strength: when semantic cues are stronger, well-formed syntactic cues are perceived as anomalous, eliciting P600 effects; when syntactic cues are stronger, the anomaly is perceived as being semantic in nature, resulting in enhanced N400; when cues are evenly matched, anomalies elicit a left-anterior negativity (LAN). Experiments 3 and 4 manipulated contextual information and found that sentences with local semantic anomalies elicited N400 effects when preceded by a "no-mention" context, but the same anomalies elicited P600 effects when preceded by a "previous-mention" context. This suggests that discourse activates structured event-representations within semantic knowledge that can similarly "tip the balance" between syntactic and semantic processing streams, thereby influencing the outcome of the conflict. Taken together, these findings suggest that syntactic and semantic information are processed in parallel streams that are fully-interactive, wherein the strength of cues influences the conflict's outcome and determines which level is most affected by the conflict. Under normal conditions, streams converge on a single representation. However, during conflict streams can vie for interpretive dominance – sometimes tipping in favor of semantic reanalysis (N400), sometimes toward structural reprocessing (P600), and occasionally caught between the two (LAN). These findings provide insights into issues in linguistic theory and psycholinguistic models of language processing, and advance our understanding of how people make sense of conflicting information during language comprehension. Advisors/Committee Members: Laura A. Michaelis-‐Cummings, Albert Kim, Albert E. Kim, Bhuvana Narasiman, Barbara A. Fox.

Subjects/Keywords: conflict; discourse context; language; semantics; sentence processing; syntax; Cognitive Psychology; Linguistics; Neuroscience and Neurobiology

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APA (6^th Edition):

Sikos, L. (2011). Tipping the Balance: The Modulation of ERP Effects at the Syntax-‐Semantics Interface. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/ling_gradetds/27

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Sikos, Les. “Tipping the Balance: The Modulation of ERP Effects at the Syntax-‐Semantics Interface.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed April 16, 2021. https://scholar.colorado.edu/ling_gradetds/27.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Sikos, Les. “Tipping the Balance: The Modulation of ERP Effects at the Syntax-‐Semantics Interface.” 2011. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Sikos L. Tipping the Balance: The Modulation of ERP Effects at the Syntax-‐Semantics Interface. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/ling_gradetds/27.

Council of Science Editors:

Sikos L. Tipping the Balance: The Modulation of ERP Effects at the Syntax-‐Semantics Interface. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2011. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/ling_gradetds/27

University of North Texas

14. Mazidi, Karen. Infusing Automatic Question Generation with Natural Language Understanding.

Degree: 2016, University of North Texas

URL: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955021/

► Automatically generating questions from text for educational purposes is an active research area in natural language processing. The automatic question generation system accompanying this dissertation… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Automatic question generation; Computational linguistics.; Grammar, Comparative and general – Interrogative.; Discourse analysis – Data processing.

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Mazidi, K. (2016). Infusing Automatic Question Generation with Natural Language Understanding. (Thesis). University of North Texas. Retrieved from https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955021/

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mazidi, Karen. “Infusing Automatic Question Generation with Natural Language Understanding.” 2016. Thesis, University of North Texas. Accessed April 16, 2021. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955021/.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mazidi, Karen. “Infusing Automatic Question Generation with Natural Language Understanding.” 2016. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Mazidi K. Infusing Automatic Question Generation with Natural Language Understanding. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of North Texas; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955021/.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Mazidi K. Infusing Automatic Question Generation with Natural Language Understanding. [Thesis]. University of North Texas; 2016. Available from: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955021/

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

York University

15. Meyer Sterzik, Angela Jean. Going Beyond the Text: The Inferencing Processes of Skilled Readers in L1 and L2 Across Reading Tasks.

Degree: PhD, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Applied Linguistics), 2018, York University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/34265

► This small exploratory study investigated the inferencing processes of skilled first language (L1) and second language (L2) readers for two academic tasks. The goal was… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Reading instruction; Reading; Reading comprehension; EAP; Inferences; Discourse processing; L2; L1; Adults

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Meyer Sterzik, A. J. (2018). Going Beyond the Text: The Inferencing Processes of Skilled Readers in L1 and L2 Across Reading Tasks. (Doctoral Dissertation). York University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10315/34265

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Meyer Sterzik, Angela Jean. “Going Beyond the Text: The Inferencing Processes of Skilled Readers in L1 and L2 Across Reading Tasks.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, York University. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10315/34265.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Meyer Sterzik, Angela Jean. “Going Beyond the Text: The Inferencing Processes of Skilled Readers in L1 and L2 Across Reading Tasks.” 2018. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Meyer Sterzik AJ. Going Beyond the Text: The Inferencing Processes of Skilled Readers in L1 and L2 Across Reading Tasks. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. York University; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/34265.

Council of Science Editors:

Meyer Sterzik AJ. Going Beyond the Text: The Inferencing Processes of Skilled Readers in L1 and L2 Across Reading Tasks. [Doctoral Dissertation]. York University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/34265

16. Paula Christina Figueira Cardoso. Exploração de métodos de sumarização automática multidocumento com base em conhecimento semântico-discursivo.

Degree: 2014, University of São Paulo

URL: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-16032015-161912/

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A sumarização automática multidocumento visa à produção de um sumário a partir de um conjunto de textos relacionados, para ser utilizado por um usuário particular… (more)

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A sumarização automática multidocumento visa à produção de um sumário a partir de um conjunto de textos relacionados, para ser utilizado por um usuário particular e/ou para determinada tarefa. Com o crescimento exponencial das informações disponíveis e a necessidade das pessoas obterem a informação em um curto espaço de tempo, a tarefa de sumarização automática tem recebido muita atenção nos últimos tempos. Sabe-se que em um conjunto de textos relacionados existem informações redundantes, contraditórias e complementares, que representam os fenômenos multidocumento. Em cada texto-fonte, o assunto principal é descrito em uma sequência de subtópicos. Além disso, as sentenças de um texto-fonte possuem graus de relevância diferentes. Nesse contexto, espera-se que um sumário multidocumento consista das informações relevantes que representem o total de textos do conjunto. No entanto, as estratégias de sumarização automática multidocumento adotadas até o presente utilizam somente os relacionamentos entre textos e descartam a análise da estrutura textual de cada texto-fonte, resultando em sumários que são pouco representativos dos subtópicos textuais e menos informativos do que poderiam ser. A fim de tratar adequadamente a relevância das informações, os fenômenos multidocumento e a distribuição de subtópicos, neste trabalho de doutorado, investigou-se como modelar o processo de sumarização automática usando o conhecimento semântico-discursivo em métodos de seleção de conteúdo e o impacto disso para a produção de sumários mais informativos e representativos dos textos-fonte. Na formalização do conhecimento semântico-discursivo, foram utilizadas as teorias semântico-discursivas RST (Rhetorical Structure Theory) e CST (Cross-document Structure Theory). Para apoiar o trabalho, um córpus multidocumento foi anotado com RST e subtópicos, consistindo em um recurso disponível para outras pesquisas. A partir da análise de córpus, foram propostos 10 métodos de segmentação em subtópicos e 13 métodos inovadores de sumarização automática. A avaliação dos métodos de segmentação em subtópicos mostrou que existe uma forte relação entre a estrutura de subtópicos e a análise retórica de um texto. Quanto à avaliação dos métodos de sumarização automática, os resultados indicam que o uso do conhecimento semântico-discursivo em boas estratégias de seleção de conteúdo afeta positivamente a produção de sumários informativos.

The multi-document summarization aims at producing a summary from a set of related texts to be used for an individual or/and a particular task. Nowadays, with the exponential growth of available information and the peoples need to obtain information in a short time, the task of automatic summarization has received wide attention. It is known that in a set of related texts there are pieces of redundant, contradictory and complementary information that represent the multi-document phenomenon. In each source text, the main subject is described in a sequence of subtopics. Furthermore, some sentences in the same text are…

Advisors/Committee Members: Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Sandra Maria Aluisio, Iria da Cunha Fanego, Lucia Helena Machado Rino, Renata Vieira.

Subjects/Keywords: Modelos discursivos; Processamento de língua natural; Sumarização automática; Automatic summarization; Discourse models; Natural language processing

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APA (6^th Edition):

Cardoso, P. C. F. (2014). Exploração de métodos de sumarização automática multidocumento com base em conhecimento semântico-discursivo. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of São Paulo. Retrieved from http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-16032015-161912/

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Cardoso, Paula Christina Figueira. “Exploração de métodos de sumarização automática multidocumento com base em conhecimento semântico-discursivo.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of São Paulo. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-16032015-161912/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Cardoso, Paula Christina Figueira. “Exploração de métodos de sumarização automática multidocumento com base em conhecimento semântico-discursivo.” 2014. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Cardoso PCF. Exploração de métodos de sumarização automática multidocumento com base em conhecimento semântico-discursivo. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of São Paulo; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-16032015-161912/.

Council of Science Editors:

Cardoso PCF. Exploração de métodos de sumarização automática multidocumento com base em conhecimento semântico-discursivo. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of São Paulo; 2014. Available from: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-16032015-161912/

17. Ji, Yangfeng. Semantic representation learning for discourse processing.

Degree: PhD, Computer Science, 2016, Georgia Tech

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55636

► Discourse processing is to identify coherent relations, such as contrast and causal relation, from well-organized texts. The outcomes from discourse processing can benefit both research… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Semantics; Representation learning; Deep learning; Discourse; Discourse processing; Sentiment analysis

…frameworks on discourse processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 A surface-form… …system pipeline of RST-style discourse processing. . . . . . . . . 26 12 The system pipeline… …of automatic RST-style discourse processing. . . 27 13 Decision problem with different… …organized texts. The outcomes from discourse processing can benefit both research and applications… …is an essential task of discourse processing. Relation identification requires intensive…

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APA (6^th Edition):

Ji, Y. (2016). Semantic representation learning for discourse processing. (Doctoral Dissertation). Georgia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55636

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ji, Yangfeng. “Semantic representation learning for discourse processing.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgia Tech. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55636.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ji, Yangfeng. “Semantic representation learning for discourse processing.” 2016. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Ji Y. Semantic representation learning for discourse processing. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55636.

Council of Science Editors:

Ji Y. Semantic representation learning for discourse processing. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55636

Université Toulouse II – Le Mirail

18. Adam, Clémentine. Voisinage lexical pour l'analyse du discours : Lexical neighbours for discourse analysis.

Degree: Docteur es, Sciences du langage, 2012, Université Toulouse II – Le Mirail

URL: http://www.theses.fr/2012TOU20065

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Cette thèse s'intéresse au rôle de la cohésion lexicale dans différentes approches de l'analyse du discours. Nous yexplorons deux hypothèses principales:- l'analyse distributionnelle, qui permet… (more)

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Cette thèse s'intéresse au rôle de la cohésion lexicale dans différentes approches de l'analyse du discours. Nous yexplorons deux hypothèses principales:- l'analyse distributionnelle, qui permet de rapprocher des unités lexicales sur la base des contextes syntaxiques qu'ellespartagent, met au jour des relations sémantiques variées pouvant être exploitées pour la détection de la cohésion lexicaledes textes;- les indices lexicaux constituent des éléments de signalisation de l'organisation du discours pouvant être exploités aussibien à un niveau local (identification de relations rhétoriques entre constituants élémentaires du discours) qu'à un niveauglobal (repérage ou caractérisation de segments de niveau supérieur dotés d'une fonction rhétorique et garantissant lacohérence et la lisibilité du texte, par exemple passages à unité thématique).Concernant le premier point, nous montrons la pertinence d'une ressource distributionnelle pour l'appréhension d'une largegamme de relations impliquées dans la cohésion lexicale des textes. Nous présentons les méthodes de projection et defiltrage que nous avons mises en œuvre pour la production de sorties exploitables.Concernant le second point, nous fournissons une série d'éclairages qui montrent l'apport d'une prise en compte réfléchiede la cohésion lexicale pour une grande variété de problématiques liées à l'étude et au repérage automatique del'organisation textuelle: segmentation thématique de textes, caractérisation des structures énumératives, étude de lacorrélation entre lexique et structure rhétorique du discours et enfin détection de réalisations d'une relation de discoursparticulière, la relation d'élaboration.

This thesis considers the role of lexical cohesion in various approaches of discourse analysis. Two main hypotheses arestudied:- distributional analysis, which allows to bring together lexical units based on the syntactic contexts they share, highlightsdiverse semantic relations which can be employed in the detection of lexical cohesion in texts;- lexical cues are involved in discourse signalization and can be used both at a local level (identification of rhetoricalrelations between elementary discourse units) and at a global level (detection or characterization of higher levelsegments).In reference to the first hypothesis, we show that a distributional resource is strongly relevant in the analysis of a widepanel of relations having lexical cohesion roles in texts. We introduce projection and filtering methods for thisdistributional resource.In reference to the second hypothesis, we provide a series of outlooks showing the improvement brought by carefulconsideration of lexical cohesion in a large panel of settings within the study of textual organisation and its automaticdetection: thematic segmentation of texts, enumerative structures characterization, study of the correlation betweenlexicon and the rhetorical structure of discourse, and finally detection of realisations of a specific discourse relation, theElaboration relation.

Advisors/Committee Members: Asher, Nicholas (thesis director), Fabre, Cécile (thesis director), Muller, Philippe (thesis director).

Subjects/Keywords: Voisinage lexical; Analyse du discours; Analyse distributionnelle; Traitement automatique des langues; Lexical neighbours; Discourse analysis; Distributional analysis; Natural language processing

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APA (6^th Edition):

Adam, C. (2012). Voisinage lexical pour l'analyse du discours : Lexical neighbours for discourse analysis. (Doctoral Dissertation). Université Toulouse II – Le Mirail. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2012TOU20065

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Adam, Clémentine. “Voisinage lexical pour l'analyse du discours : Lexical neighbours for discourse analysis.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Université Toulouse II – Le Mirail. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOU20065.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Adam, Clémentine. “Voisinage lexical pour l'analyse du discours : Lexical neighbours for discourse analysis.” 2012. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Adam C. Voisinage lexical pour l'analyse du discours : Lexical neighbours for discourse analysis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Université Toulouse II – Le Mirail; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2012TOU20065.

Council of Science Editors:

Adam C. Voisinage lexical pour l'analyse du discours : Lexical neighbours for discourse analysis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Université Toulouse II – Le Mirail; 2012. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2012TOU20065

University of Iowa

19. Leal, Tania Lorena. Processing long-distance dependencies: Clitic Left Dislocation in L2 Spanish.

Degree: PhD, Second Language Acquisition, 2014, University of Iowa

URL: https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1353

► It has long been theorized that, after the so-called critical period has passed, acquiring language becomes a more difficult enterprise. While general differences between… (more)

▼ It has long been theorized that, after the so-called critical period has passed, acquiring language becomes a more difficult enterprise. While general differences between adult second language (L2) learners and normally developed child (L1) acquirers have been more or less empirically established, a strand of recent L2 accounts have focused on the specific locus of these differences. The main goal of this dissertation project is to test the predictions of one such account: Clahsen and Felser's Shallow Structure Hypothesis (SSH; Clahsen & Felser 2006a, 2006b). The SSH places emphasis on the empirical testing of native/non-native language processing asymmetries, which are argued to be due to less detailed L2 grammatical representations. This dissertation tests the predictions of the SSH using a long-distance dependency: Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) in L2 Spanish. The study includes on-line and an off-line tasks, which were completed by a control group of native speakers of Spanish and an experimental group constituted by L2 learners of Spanish whose first language was English. In view of the well-known fact that L2 learning outcomes vary widely across individuals, a secondary goal of this dissertation project is to determine whether variability in individual learning abilities, such as inhibitory control and statistical learning predicts variability in L2 learning. Part of L2 learning involves detecting the probabilistic patterns of a language (Saffran, Aslin, & Newport, 1996), such that individuals who are better pattern learners may be better able to learn the structural regularities of the L2 input. Results were analyzed in order to determine whether the predictions of the SSH could account for the patterns present in the data. These results suggest that although the acquisition of long-distance dependencies is a protracted process, both intermediate and advanced L2 learners of Spanish could anticipate (predict) a syntactic element based in previously occurring cues. Thus, these results fail to support the predictions of the SSH. In terms of individual differences, overall, neither statistical learning nor inhibitory control appear to modulate the on-line processing of this particular long-distance dependency in Spanish. Advisors/Committee Members: Slabakova, Roumyana (supervisor).

Subjects/Keywords: clitics; long-distance dependencies; Second language acquisition; sentence processing; Spanish; syntax-discourse; First and Second Language Acquisition

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Leal, T. L. (2014). Processing long-distance dependencies: Clitic Left Dislocation in L2 Spanish. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Iowa. Retrieved from https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1353

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Leal, Tania Lorena. “Processing long-distance dependencies: Clitic Left Dislocation in L2 Spanish.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Iowa. Accessed April 16, 2021. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1353.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Leal, Tania Lorena. “Processing long-distance dependencies: Clitic Left Dislocation in L2 Spanish.” 2014. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Leal TL. Processing long-distance dependencies: Clitic Left Dislocation in L2 Spanish. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Iowa; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1353.

Council of Science Editors:

Leal TL. Processing long-distance dependencies: Clitic Left Dislocation in L2 Spanish. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Iowa; 2014. Available from: https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1353

Florida Atlantic University

20. Hurtado, Jose Luis. Text Mining and Topic Modeling for Social and Medical Decision Support.

Degree: 2016, Florida Atlantic University

URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004782 ; (URL) http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004782

► Summary: Effective decision support plays vital roles in people's daily life, as well as for professional practitioners such as health care providers. Without correct information… (more)

▼ Summary: Effective decision support plays vital roles in people's daily life, as well as for professional practitioners such as health care providers. Without correct information and timely derived knowledge, a decision is often suboptimal and may result in signi cant nancial loss or compromises of the performance. In this dissertation, we study text mining and topic modeling and propose to use text mining methods, in combination with topic models, to discover knowledge from texts popularly available from a wide variety of sources, such as research publications, news, medical diagnose notes, and further employ discovered knowledge to assist social and medical decision support. Examples of such decisions include hospital patient readmission prediction, which is a national initiative for health care cost reduction, academic research topics discovery and trend modeling, and social preference modeling for friend recommendation in social networks etc. To carry out text mining, our research, in Chapter 3, first emphasizes on single document analyzing to investigate textual stylometric features for user pro ling and recognition. Our research confirms that by using properly designed features, it is possible to identify the authors who wrote the article, using a number of sample articles written by the author as the training data. This study serves as the base to assert that text mining is a powerful tool for capturing knowledge in texts for better decision making. In the Chapter 4, we advance our research from single documents to documents with interdependency relationships, and propose to model and predict citation relationship between documents. Given a collection of documents with known linkage relationships, our research will discover e ective features to train prediction models, and predict the likelihood of two documents involving a citation relationships. This study will help accurately model social network linkage relationships, and can be used to assist e ective decision making for friend recommendation in social networking, and reference recommendation in scienti c writing etc. In the Chapter 5, we advance a topic discovery and trend prediction principle to discover meaningful topics from a set of data collection, and further model the evolution trend of the topic. By proposing techniques to discover topics from text, and using temporal correlation between trend for prediction, our techniques can be used to summarize a large collection of documents as meaningful topics, and further forecast the popularity of the topic in a near future. This study can help design systems to discover popular topics in social media, and further assist resource planning and scheduling based on the discovered topics and the their evolution trend. In the Chapter 6, we employ both text mining and topic modeling to the medical domain for effective decision making. The goal is to discover knowledge from medical notes to predict the risk of a patient being re-admitted in a near future. Our research emphasizes on the challenge that… Advisors/Committee Members: Zhu, Xingquan (Thesis advisor), Florida Atlantic University (Degree grantor), College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Subjects/Keywords: Social sciences – Research – Methodology.; Data mining.; Machine learning.; Database searching.; Discourse analysis – Data processing.; Communication – Network analysis.; Medical care – Quality control.

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Hurtado, J. L. (2016). Text Mining and Topic Modeling for Social and Medical Decision Support. (Thesis). Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004782 ; (URL) http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004782

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hurtado, Jose Luis. “Text Mining and Topic Modeling for Social and Medical Decision Support.” 2016. Thesis, Florida Atlantic University. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004782 ; (URL) http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004782.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hurtado, Jose Luis. “Text Mining and Topic Modeling for Social and Medical Decision Support.” 2016. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Hurtado JL. Text Mining and Topic Modeling for Social and Medical Decision Support. [Internet] [Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004782 ; (URL) http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004782.

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Hurtado JL. Text Mining and Topic Modeling for Social and Medical Decision Support. [Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2016. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004782 ; (URL) http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004782

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21. Greehy, Gráinne Maria. Public evaluations of novel food technologies: a qualitative citizen-scientist deliberative discourse approach.

Degree: 2015, University College Cork

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2073

► This qualitative research expands understanding of how information about a range of Novel Food Technologies (NFTs) is used and assimilated, and the implications of this… (more)

▼ This qualitative research expands understanding of how information about a range of Novel Food Technologies (NFTs) is used and assimilated, and the implications of this on the evolution of attitudes and acceptance. This work enhances theoretical and applied understanding of citizens’ evaluative processes around these technologies. The approach applied involved observations of interactive exchanges between citizens and information providers (i.e. food scientists), during which they discussed a specific technology. This flexible, yet structured, approach revealed how individuals construct meaning around information about specific NFTs. A rich dataset of 42 ‘deliberate discourse’ and 42 postdiscourse transcripts was collected. Data analysis encompassed three stages: an initial descriptive account of the complete dataset based on the top-down bottom-up (TDBU) model of attitude formation, followed by inductive and deductive thematic analysis across the selected technology groups. The hybrid thematic analysis undertaken identified a Conceptual Model, which represents a holistic perspective on the influences and associated features directing ‘sense-making’ and ultimate evaluations around the technology clusters. How individuals make sense of these technologies is shaped by: their beliefs, values and personal characteristics; their perceptions of power and control over the application of the technology; and, the assumed relevance of the technology and its applications within different contexts. These influences form the frame for the creation of sense-making around the technologies. Internal negotiations between these influences are evident and evaluations are based on the relative importance of each influence to the individual, which tend to contribute to attitude ambivalence and instability. The findings indicate the processes of forming and changing attitudes towards these technologies are: complex; dependent on characteristics of the individual, technology, application and product; and, impacted by the nature and forms of information provided. Challenges are faced in engaging with the public about these technologies, as levels of knowledge, understanding and interest vary. Advisors/Committee Members: Henchion, Maeve, McCarthy, Mary, Teagasc.

Subjects/Keywords: Novel food technologies; Citizen/ consumer acceptance; Attitude formation; Information processing; Risk communication; Deliberative discourse; Thematic analysis

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Greehy, G. M. (2015). Public evaluations of novel food technologies: a qualitative citizen-scientist deliberative discourse approach. (Thesis). University College Cork. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2073

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Greehy, Gráinne Maria. “Public evaluations of novel food technologies: a qualitative citizen-scientist deliberative discourse approach.” 2015. Thesis, University College Cork. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2073.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Greehy, Gráinne Maria. “Public evaluations of novel food technologies: a qualitative citizen-scientist deliberative discourse approach.” 2015. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Greehy GM. Public evaluations of novel food technologies: a qualitative citizen-scientist deliberative discourse approach. [Internet] [Thesis]. University College Cork; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2073.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Greehy GM. Public evaluations of novel food technologies: a qualitative citizen-scientist deliberative discourse approach. [Thesis]. University College Cork; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2073

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22. Riaz, Mehwish. Mining novel sources of knowledge to identify causal information in text.

Degree: PhD, 0112, 2014, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49376

► The abundance of information on the internet has impacted the lives of people to a great extent. People take advantage of the internet to acquire… (more)

▼ The abundance of information on the internet has impacted the lives of people to a great extent. People take advantage of the internet to acquire information for several day to day social and political activities. Though the plenty of information on the internet is of great use, it takes lot of time to go through a number of text articles to understand events and the causal relations between events that build a particular social or political news story. In this thesis, we focus on the problem of automated extraction of causal information in text. This can be of great assistance to the people who strive to acquire the flow of events in text to make various decisions and predict consequences of their decisions. In natural language, causal relations can be encoded using various linguistic constructions. Each construction with its own semantics can pose various challenges for the problem of identifying causality. In this thesis, we address the tasks of identifying causality between two verbs and a verb and a noun by deeply analyzing semantics of these constructions. After the successful use of linguistic features for various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, several approaches have been proposed to identify causality using such features in the framework of supervised learning. However, it is not practical to depend merely on these features because there are many factors involved in identifying causality such as background knowledge, semantic and pragmatic features of events, world knowledge, etc. In addition to the above, the supervised learning approaches are sensitive to the size of training corpus and the type of contexts of training instances. For example, the unambiguous training instances do not provide a better supervision for the ambiguous and implicit instances of semantic relations including causality [Sporleder and Lascarides 2008]. Therefore, in this work instead of merely relying on the linguistic features extracted from the contexts of training instances, we propose an approach to derive novel sources of knowledge for identifying causal information in text. In the first part of this thesis, we introduce methods to acquire background knowledge and the knowledge of causal semantics of verbs for the task of identifying causality between the two state of affairs represented by verbs. After the knowledge acquisition step, we integrate the above types of knowledge with a supervised classifier employing linguistic features to obtain optimal predictions for the current task. Similarly, in the second part of this thesis, we propose methods to acquire and employ the knowledge of causal semantics of nouns, verbs and verb frames to identify causality between the two state of affairs represented by verbs and nouns. With the addition of novel sources of knowledge, our models for the current tasks gain lots of progress in performance over the baseline of supervised classifiers relying merely on linguistics features. Moreover, in comparison with these supervised classifiers, performance of our models is more… Advisors/Committee Members: Girju, Roxana (advisor), Girju, Roxana (Committee Chair), Zhai, ChengXiang (committee member), Hockenmaier, Julia C. (committee member), Di Eugenio, Barbara (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Causality; Events; Discourse Processing; Natural Language Semantics

…unambiguous discourse markers employed for the acquisition of a training corpus of evi -evj pairs… …A list of causal discourse markers and the assignment of roles to the events of causal… …the verb appearing before (after) the causal discourse marker in text… …of their decisions. Moreover, in natural language processing, the recognition of semantic… …success in this area is critical for various language processing applications such question…

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Riaz, M. (2014). Mining novel sources of knowledge to identify causal information in text. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49376

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Riaz, Mehwish. “Mining novel sources of knowledge to identify causal information in text.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49376.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Riaz, Mehwish. “Mining novel sources of knowledge to identify causal information in text.” 2014. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Riaz M. Mining novel sources of knowledge to identify causal information in text. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49376.

Council of Science Editors:

Riaz M. Mining novel sources of knowledge to identify causal information in text. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49376

University of Texas – Austin

23. Larson, Erik John. Primary semantic type labeling in monologue discourse using a hierarchical classification approach.

Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2009, University of Texas – Austin

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-636

► The question of whether a machine can reproduce human intelligence is older than modern computation, but has received a great deal of attention since the… (more)

▼ The question of whether a machine can reproduce human intelligence is older than modern computation, but has received a great deal of attention since the first digital computers emerged decades ago. Language understanding, a hallmark of human intelligence, has been the focus of a great deal of work in Artificial Intelligence (AI). In 1950, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a kind of game, or test, to evaluate the intelligence of a machine by assessing its ability to understand written natural language. But nearly sixty years after Turing proposed his test of machine intelligence—pose questions to a machine and a person without seeing either, and try to determine which is the machine—no system has passed the Turing Test, and the question of whether a machine can understand natural language cannot yet be answered. The present investigation is, firstly, an attempt to advance the state of the art in natural language understanding by building a machine whose input is English natural language and whose output is a set of assertions that represent answers to certain questions posed about the content of the input. The machine we explore here, in other words, should pass a simplified version of the Turing Test and by doing so help clarify and expand on our understanding of the machine intelligence. Toward this goal, we explore a constraint framework for partial solutions to the Turing Test, propose a problem whose solution would constitute a significant advance in natural language processing, and design and implement a system adequate for addressing the problem proposed. The fully implemented system finds primary specific events and their locations in monologue discourse using a hierarchical classification approach, and as such provides answers to questions of central importance in the interpretation of discourse. Advisors/Committee Members: Koons, Robert C. (advisor), Asher, Nicholas M. (committee member), Bonevac, Daniel A. (committee member), Juhl, Cory F. (committee member), Porter, Bruce W. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Machine learning; Hierarchical classification; Natural language processing; Discourse interpretation

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Larson, E. J. (2009). Primary semantic type labeling in monologue discourse using a hierarchical classification approach. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-636

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Larson, Erik John. “Primary semantic type labeling in monologue discourse using a hierarchical classification approach.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-636.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Larson, Erik John. “Primary semantic type labeling in monologue discourse using a hierarchical classification approach.” 2009. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Larson EJ. Primary semantic type labeling in monologue discourse using a hierarchical classification approach. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2009. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-636.

Council of Science Editors:

Larson EJ. Primary semantic type labeling in monologue discourse using a hierarchical classification approach. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-636

Wayne State University

24. Naperala, Nancy. Toward Enhancing Ecological Validity Of Cognitive-Linguistic Assessment: The Role Of Individual Differences In Cognitive Capacity On Oral Discourse Processing.

Degree: PhD, Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2020, Wayne State University

URL: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/2392

► A growing body of multidisciplinary research indicates the need for more holistic tests of executive cognitive functioning and complex language metrics that predict real-life… (more)

▼ A growing body of multidisciplinary research indicates the need for more holistic tests of executive cognitive functioning and complex language metrics that predict real-life performance. However, empirical studies investigating cognitive aging, limited capacity processing and everyday discourse behaviours are still lacking. The present research focused on ecologically valid methods for capturing individual differences in cognitive capacity and the effects of cognitive load on oral discourse processing (ODP) in healthy adult participants. This methodology sought to tease apart the nature of capacity limits and provide a better estimate of age-related differences in everyday discourse behaviors in three parts. First, the effects of simple and complex cognitive load and age-related differences in ODP performance were investigated using a dual-task paradigm. Second we examined, links between overall cognitive capacity—estimated via scores on a standardized self-report survey of everyday executive functioning—and dual-task ODP under varying load in younger and older adults. Finally, we explored the nature of capacity limits (i.e., scores on the self-report survey measuring particular executive functions) influencing age-related differences in ODP under varying load. Results yielded evidence that age-related differences in ODP performance costs increased as the complexity of the dual-task condition increased. Results of our second inquiry did not support the prediction that overall cognitive capacity and ODP under complex load would be negatively correlated, and that this relationship would be greater for older adults. However, older adults’ mean scores indicated slightly reduced cognitive capacity and poorer ODP performance as the cognitive load increased. Results of the final analysis, while revealing weak-to-moderate and non-significant relationships, suggested that capacity limits in working memory, initiation, planning/organization, task monitoring, and organization of materials, influenced age-related declines in ODP performance. Overall, findings add to literature advocating for ecologically valid cognitive-linguistic assessments. Combining dual-task performance measures with tests of executive functioning has the ability to tap individual differences in cognitive capacity and their relation to everyday discourse processing. Further, such methodologies promote a more holistic approach to assessing performance, which could strengthen the ability to predict meaningful behavioural patterns, and optimize intervention efforts for a diverse range of needs across adult populations. Advisors/Committee Members: Margaret L. Greenwald.

Subjects/Keywords: age-related performance declines; cognitive aging; cognitive capacity; cognitive-linguistic assessment; ecological validity; oral discourse processing; Speech and Hearing Science

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Naperala, N. (2020). Toward Enhancing Ecological Validity Of Cognitive-Linguistic Assessment: The Role Of Individual Differences In Cognitive Capacity On Oral Discourse Processing. (Doctoral Dissertation). Wayne State University. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/2392

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Naperala, Nancy. “Toward Enhancing Ecological Validity Of Cognitive-Linguistic Assessment: The Role Of Individual Differences In Cognitive Capacity On Oral Discourse Processing.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, Wayne State University. Accessed April 16, 2021. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/2392.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Naperala, Nancy. “Toward Enhancing Ecological Validity Of Cognitive-Linguistic Assessment: The Role Of Individual Differences In Cognitive Capacity On Oral Discourse Processing.” 2020. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Naperala N. Toward Enhancing Ecological Validity Of Cognitive-Linguistic Assessment: The Role Of Individual Differences In Cognitive Capacity On Oral Discourse Processing. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Wayne State University; 2020. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/2392.

Council of Science Editors:

Naperala N. Toward Enhancing Ecological Validity Of Cognitive-Linguistic Assessment: The Role Of Individual Differences In Cognitive Capacity On Oral Discourse Processing. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Wayne State University; 2020. Available from: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/2392

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

25. Silva, Fernando José Vieira da, 1986-. Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso.

Degree: Instituto de Computação; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação, 2012, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

URL: SILVA, Fernando José Vieira da. Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso. 2012. 78 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação, Campinas, SP. Disponível em: <http://www.repositorio.unicamp.br/handle/REPOSIP/275704>. Acesso em: 20 ago. 2018. ; http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275704

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Orientador: Ariadne Maria Brito Rizzoni Carvalho

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação

Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T03:50:58Z (GMT). No. of… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Processamento de linguagem natural (Computação); Anáfora (Linguística); Análise do discurso; Natural languagem processing (Computer science); Anaphora (Linguistics); Discourse Analysis

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Silva, Fernando José Vieira da, 1. (2012). Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso. (Masters Thesis). Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Retrieved from SILVA, Fernando José Vieira da. Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso. 2012. 78 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação, Campinas, SP. Disponível em: <http://www.repositorio.unicamp.br/handle/REPOSIP/275704>. Acesso em: 20 ago. 2018. ; http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275704

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Silva, Fernando José Vieira da, 1986-. “Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Accessed April 16, 2021. SILVA, Fernando José Vieira da. Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso. 2012. 78 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação, Campinas, SP. Disponível em: <http://www.repositorio.unicamp.br/handle/REPOSIP/275704>. Acesso em: 20 ago. 2018. ; http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275704.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Silva, Fernando José Vieira da, 1986-. “Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso.” 2012. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Silva, Fernando José Vieira da 1. Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universidade Estadual de Campinas; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: SILVA, Fernando José Vieira da. Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso. 2012. 78 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação, Campinas, SP. Disponível em: <http://www.repositorio.unicamp.br/handle/REPOSIP/275704>. Acesso em: 20 ago. 2018. ; http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275704.

Council of Science Editors:

Silva, Fernando José Vieira da 1. Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso. [Masters Thesis]. Universidade Estadual de Campinas; 2012. Available from: SILVA, Fernando José Vieira da. Resolução automática de pronomes em português utilizando coerência do discurso. 2012. 78 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação, Campinas, SP. Disponível em: <http://www.repositorio.unicamp.br/handle/REPOSIP/275704>. Acesso em: 20 ago. 2018. ; http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275704

University of Canterbury

26. Ghaleh, Maryam. Discourse processing abilities in ageing : influence of working memory capacity on reference resolution.

Degree: PhD, Speech and Language Sciences, 2015, University of Canterbury

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/8728

► Maintaining health and quality of life into old age is a critical issue facing society today. Language, and in particular language comprehension, is vulnerable to… (more)

▼ Maintaining health and quality of life into old age is a critical issue facing society today. Language, and in particular language comprehension, is vulnerable to the processes of ageing (Au, Albert, & Obler, 1989; Kynette & Kemper, 1986; Nicholas, Obler, Albert, & Goodglass, 1985; Shewan & Henderson, 1988). An improved understanding of language processing and ageing will assist in distinguishing language difficulties in normal ageing from those in pathological ageing and aphasia (Maxim & Bryan, 1994) and, potentially, optimises communication throughout life. The current thesis focuses on a specific component of language comprehension - anaphora resolution . Anaphora resolution occurs frequently in everyday discourse and has been reported to decline with ageing (Cohen, 1979; Light & Capps, 1986; Ulatowska, Hayashi, Cannito, & Fleming, 1986). This thesis explored anaphora resolution relative to two key variables: ageing and working memory. Ageing was chosen as a variable as anaphora resolution has been shown to be affected by age (Cohen, 1979; Light & Capps, 1986; Ulatowska et al., 1986). Working memory was chosen as working memory is thought to underlie key aspects of discourse comprehension such as building a mental structure of discourse and updating the information (Brébion, 2003; Hasher & Zacks, 1988; Radvansky, Copeland, & Hippel, 2010; Radvansky, Lynchard, & von Hippel, 2009). Anaphora resolution was investigated using two key paradigms. The first focussed on anaphora resolution in a reading comprehension task. Performance was assessed using accuracy of response. The second employed Gernsbacher's (1989) probe-response paradigm. The probe- response paradigm allowed examination of specific working memory processes underlying discourse comprehension, namely; a) storing and maintaining information in working memory (i.e., laying the foundation of the discourse structure); and b) updating information stored in working memory through suppressing the irrelevant discourse information. Storage and maintenance of the information was assessed by examining whether participants utilised “advantage of first mention” (Gernsbacher, 1990). Suppression was evaluated by investigating whether the accessibility of nonreferent names decreased in participants' working memory after they read anaphoric pronouns in sentences. This approach aimed to answer the following questions: 1) Do age and working memory capacity affect anaphora resolution in a comprehension task?; 2) Do age and working memory affect advantage of first mention in a probe recognition task?; and 3) Does age affect suppression of irrelevant information in an anaphora resolution task? In Chapter 3, Gernsbacher's (1989) original study was replicated. In Chapter 4 the same questions were examined, with the addition of a higher working memory load. For both studies, 30 younger and 30 older participants completed two comprehension experiments followed by an assessment of working memory capacity (reading span task). The comprehension experiments each contained a…

Subjects/Keywords: Ageing; Discourse Processing; Anaphora Resolution; Structure Building Framework; Advantage of First Mention; Working Memory Capacity; Suppression; Inhibitory Decline.

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Ghaleh, M. (2015). Discourse processing abilities in ageing : influence of working memory capacity on reference resolution. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Canterbury. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/8728

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ghaleh, Maryam. “Discourse processing abilities in ageing : influence of working memory capacity on reference resolution.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Canterbury. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/8728.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ghaleh, Maryam. “Discourse processing abilities in ageing : influence of working memory capacity on reference resolution.” 2015. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Ghaleh M. Discourse processing abilities in ageing : influence of working memory capacity on reference resolution. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Canterbury; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/8728.

Council of Science Editors:

Ghaleh M. Discourse processing abilities in ageing : influence of working memory capacity on reference resolution. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Canterbury; 2015. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/8728

27. Kamalski, J.M.H. Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse.

Degree: 2007, University Utrecht

URL: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22617 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-22617 ; 1874/22617 ; urn:isbn:9789078328292 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-22617 ; https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22617

► This dissertation focuses on the role of coherence marking in discourse. If we take as an example a 1914 advertisement for Ford, that states: Buy… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: coherence marking; discourse processing; text comprehension; persuasion; forewarning; subjectivity

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Kamalski, J. M. H. (2007). Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse. (Doctoral Dissertation). University Utrecht. Retrieved from https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22617 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-22617 ; 1874/22617 ; urn:isbn:9789078328292 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-22617 ; https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22617

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kamalski, J M H. “Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse.” 2007. Doctoral Dissertation, University Utrecht. Accessed April 16, 2021. https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22617 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-22617 ; 1874/22617 ; urn:isbn:9789078328292 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-22617 ; https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22617.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kamalski, J M H. “Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse.” 2007. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Kamalski JMH. Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University Utrecht; 2007. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22617 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-22617 ; 1874/22617 ; urn:isbn:9789078328292 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-22617 ; https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22617.

Council of Science Editors:

Kamalski JMH. Coherence marking, comprehension and persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University Utrecht; 2007. Available from: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22617 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-22617 ; 1874/22617 ; urn:isbn:9789078328292 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-22617 ; https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22617

University of North Texas

28. Sanagavarapu, Krishna Chaitanya. Determining Whether and When People Participate in the Events They Tweet About.

Degree: 2017, University of North Texas

URL: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984235/

► This work describes an approach to determine whether people participate in the events they tweet about. Specifically, we determine whether people are participants in events… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Twitter events; author participation; machine learning; natural language processing; social media; corpus analysis; Computer Science; Microblogs.; Discourse analysis.; Natural language processing (Computer science)

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Sanagavarapu, K. C. (2017). Determining Whether and When People Participate in the Events They Tweet About. (Thesis). University of North Texas. Retrieved from https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984235/

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Sanagavarapu, Krishna Chaitanya. “Determining Whether and When People Participate in the Events They Tweet About.” 2017. Thesis, University of North Texas. Accessed April 16, 2021. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984235/.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Sanagavarapu, Krishna Chaitanya. “Determining Whether and When People Participate in the Events They Tweet About.” 2017. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Sanagavarapu KC. Determining Whether and When People Participate in the Events They Tweet About. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of North Texas; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984235/.

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Council of Science Editors:

Sanagavarapu KC. Determining Whether and When People Participate in the Events They Tweet About. [Thesis]. University of North Texas; 2017. Available from: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984235/

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

29. Dascalu, Mihai. L'analyse de la complexité du discours et du texte pour apprendre et collaborer : Analysing discourse and text complexity for learning and collaborating.

Degree: Docteur es, Sciences de l'éducation, 2013, Grenoble; Universitatea politehnica (Bucarest)

URL: http://www.theses.fr/2013GRENH004

► L’apprentissage collaboratif assisté par ordinateur et les technologies d’e-learning devenant de plus en plus populaires et intégrés dans des contextes éducatifs, le besoin se fait… (more)

▼ L’apprentissage collaboratif assisté par ordinateur et les technologies d’e-learning devenant de plus en plus populaires et intégrés dans des contextes éducatifs, le besoin se fait sentir de disposer d’outils d’évaluation automatique et d’aide aux enseignants ou tuteurs pour les deux activités, fortement couplées, de compréhension de textes et collaboration entre pairs. Bien qu’une analyse de surface de ces activités est aisément réalisable, une compréhension plus profonde et complète du discours en jeu est nécessaire, complétée par une analyse de l’information méta-cognitive disponible par diverses sources, comme par exemples les auto-explications des apprenants. Dans ce contexte, nous utilisons un modèle dialogique issu des travaux de Bakhtine pour analyser les conversations collaboratives, et une approche théorique visant à unifier les activités de compréhension et de collaboration dans un même cadre, utilisant la construction de graphes de cohésion. Plus spécifiquement, nous nous sommes centrés sur la dimension individuelle de l’apprentissage, analysée à partir de l’identification de stratégies de lecture et sur la mise au jour d’un modèle de la complexité textuelle intégrant des facteurs de surface, lexicaux, morphologiques, syntaxiques et sémantiques. En complément, la dimension collaborative de l’apprentissage est centrée sur l’évaluation de l’implication des participants, ainsi que sur l’évaluation de leur collaboration par deux modèles computationnels: un modèle polyphonique, défini comme l’inter-animation de voix selon de multiples perspectives, un modèle spécifique de construction sociale de connaissances, fondé sur le graphe de cohésion et un mécanisme d’évaluation des tours de parole. Notre approche met en œuvre des techniques avancées de traitement automatique de la langue et a pour but de formaliser une évaluation qualitative du processus d’apprentissage. Ainsi, deux perspectives fortement interreliées sont prises en considération : d’une part, la compréhension, centrée sur la construction de connaissances et les auto-explications à partir desquelles les stratégies de lecture sont identifiées ; d’autre part la collaboration, qui peut être définie comme l’implication sociale, la génération d’idées ou de voix en interanimation dans un contexte donné. Des validations cognitives de nos différents systèmes d’évaluation automatique ont été réalisées, et nous avons conçu des scénarios d’utilisation de ReaderBench, notre système le plus avancé, dans différents contextes d’enseignement. L’un des buts principaux de notre modèle est de favoriser la compréhension vue en tant que « médiatrice de l’apprentissage », en procurant des rétroactions automatiques aux apprenants et enseignants ou tuteurs. Leur avantage est triple: leur flexibilité, leur extensibilité et, cependant, leur spécificité, car ils couvrent de multiples étapes de l’activité d’apprentissage, de la lecture de matériel d’apprentissage à l’écriture de synthèses de cours en passant par la discussion collaborative de contenus de cours et la… Advisors/Committee Members: Dessus, Philippe (thesis director), Trausan-Matu, Stefan (thesis director).

Subjects/Keywords: Complexité; Traitement Automatique de la Langue; Apprentissage Collaboratif Assisté par Ordinateur; Analyse du discours; Compréhension de texte; Complexity; Natural Language Processing; Computer Supported Collaborative Learning; Discourse Analysis; Textual Comprehension

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APA (6^th Edition):

Dascalu, M. (2013). L'analyse de la complexité du discours et du texte pour apprendre et collaborer : Analysing discourse and text complexity for learning and collaborating. (Doctoral Dissertation). Grenoble; Universitatea politehnica (Bucarest). Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2013GRENH004

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Dascalu, Mihai. “L'analyse de la complexité du discours et du texte pour apprendre et collaborer : Analysing discourse and text complexity for learning and collaborating.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Grenoble; Universitatea politehnica (Bucarest). Accessed April 16, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2013GRENH004.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Dascalu, Mihai. “L'analyse de la complexité du discours et du texte pour apprendre et collaborer : Analysing discourse and text complexity for learning and collaborating.” 2013. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Dascalu M. L'analyse de la complexité du discours et du texte pour apprendre et collaborer : Analysing discourse and text complexity for learning and collaborating. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Grenoble; Universitatea politehnica (Bucarest); 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2013GRENH004.

Council of Science Editors:

Dascalu M. L'analyse de la complexité du discours et du texte pour apprendre et collaborer : Analysing discourse and text complexity for learning and collaborating. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Grenoble; Universitatea politehnica (Bucarest); 2013. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2013GRENH004

30. LEE JUNWEN. Separating Meaning and Function: A Relevance-Theoretic Analysis of Discourse Particles in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE).

Degree: 2012, National University of Singapore

URL: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/34325

Subjects/Keywords: Discourse particles; Relevance theory; Singapore English; Intonation; Procedural meaning; Pragmatic processing

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JUNWEN, L. (2012). Separating Meaning and Function: A Relevance-Theoretic Analysis of Discourse Particles in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE). (Thesis). National University of Singapore. Retrieved from http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/34325

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

JUNWEN, LEE. “Separating Meaning and Function: A Relevance-Theoretic Analysis of Discourse Particles in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE).” 2012. Thesis, National University of Singapore. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/34325.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

JUNWEN, LEE. “Separating Meaning and Function: A Relevance-Theoretic Analysis of Discourse Particles in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE).” 2012. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

JUNWEN L. Separating Meaning and Function: A Relevance-Theoretic Analysis of Discourse Particles in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE). [Internet] [Thesis]. National University of Singapore; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/34325.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

JUNWEN L. Separating Meaning and Function: A Relevance-Theoretic Analysis of Discourse Particles in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE). [Thesis]. National University of Singapore; 2012. Available from: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/34325

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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