Towards a Discourse Relation Algebra for Comparing Discourse Structures

Charlotte Roze (1)

1 ALPAGE - Analyse Linguistique Profonde à Grande Echelle ; Large-scale deep linguistic processing

We propose a methodology for building discourse relations inference rules, to be integrated into an algebra of these relations. The construction of these rules has as main objective to allow for the calculation of the discourse closure of a structure, i.e. deduce all the discourse relations it implicitly contains. Calculating the closure of discourse structures improves their comparison, in particular within the evaluation of discourse parsing systems. We present and illustrate the adopted methodology, taking as theoretical background the Segmented Discourse Representation Theory.

Domaines: Linguistique

Charlotte Roze. Towards a Discourse Relation Algebra for Comparing Discourse Structures. CID 2011 - Constraints In Discourse, Sep 2011, Agay, France. pp.1-7. ⟨hal-00655825⟩