April 14, 2000 (Friday)

Discovering the Sounds of Discourse Structure

Barbara Grosz (Harvard University)

Recommended Readings:

• Grosz, B. and J. Hirschberg. 1992. Some Intonational Characteristics of Discourse Structure. In Ohala et al. (eds.): Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 429-432.
• Grosz, B. and C. Sidner. 1986. Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse. Computational Linguistics 12:3, pp. 175-204.
• Hirschberg, J. and B. Grosz. 1992. Intonational Features of Local and Global Discourse Structure. In Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, pp. 441-446.
• Hirschberg, J. and C.H. Nakatani. 1996. A Prosodic Analysis of Discourse Segments in Direction-Giving Monologues. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Lochbaum, K.E. 1998. A Collaborative Planning Model of Intentional Structure. Computational Linguistics 24:4, pp. 525-572.
• Nakatani, C., J. Hirschberg and B. Grosz. 1995. Discourse Structure in Spoken Language: Studies on Speech Corpora. In Working Notes of the AAAI-95 Spring Symposium in Palo Alto, CA, on Empirical Methods in Discourse Interpretation. pp. 106-112.

Why Dynamic Semantics Needs Discourse Structure

Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)