CS 359: Topics in Artificial Intelligence

    Introduction to Discourse and Dialogue

 

Bonnie Webber. (2006). Accounting for Discourse Relations: Constituency and Dependency, In M. Butt, M. Dalrymple and T. King, Intelligent Linguistic Architectures, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2006, pp. 339-360.

Wolf, F. and T. Gibson. (2005) "Representing Discourse Coherence: A Corpus-Based Study", Computational Linguistics, 31 (2), p.250-287.

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