Rst Style Discourse Parsing And Its Applications In Discourse Analysis

RST-style Discourse Parsing and Its Applications in Discourse Analysis

Dependency Structures from Syntax to Discourse

Based on the large corpora of journalistic English, this title examines dependency relations and related properties at both syntactic and discourse levels, seeking to unravel the language patterns of real-life usage. With a focus on rank-frequency distribution, the author investigates the distribution of linguistic properties/units from the perspectives of properties, motifs and sequencings. At the syntactic level, the book analyses the following three dimensions: various combinations of a complete dependency structure, valency and dependency distance. At the discourse level, it proves that the elements can also form dependency relations by exploring (1) the rank-frequency distribution of Rhetorical Structure Theory relations, their motifs, discourse valency and discourse dependency distance; (2) whether there is top-down organisation or an inverted pyramid structure at all the three discourse levels; and (3) whether discourse dependency distances and valencies are lawfully distributed, following the same distribution patterns as those at the syntactic level. This book will be of great value for scholars and students of quantitative linguistics and computational linguistics and its practical insights will also benefit professionals of language teaching and journalistic writing.

Advances in Artificial Intelligence

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2017, held in Edmonton, AB, Canada, in May 2017. The 19 regular papers and 24 short papers presented together with 6 Graduate Student Symposium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The focus of the conference was on the following subjects: Data Mining and Machine Learning; Planning and Combinatorial Optimization; AI Applications; Natural Language Processing; Uncertainty and Preference Reasoning; and Agent Systems.