4 papers
Anaphora and Discourse Structure
Bonnie Webber, Matthew Stone, Aravind Joshi +1
We argue in this paper that many common adverbial phrases generally taken to signal a discourse relation between syntactically connected units within discourse structure, instead w…
Microplanning with Communicative Intentions: The SPUD System
Matthew Stone, Christine Doran, Bonnie Webber +2
The process of microplanning encompasses a range of problems in Natural Language Generation (NLG), such as referring expression generation, lexical choice, and aggregation, problem…
Textual Economy through Close Coupling of Syntax and Semantics
Matthew Stone, Bonnie Webber
We focus on the production of efficient descriptions of objects, actions and events. We define a type of efficiency, textual economy, that exploits the hearer's recognition of infe…
Anchoring a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for Discourse
Bonnie Lynn Webber, Aravind K. Joshi
We here explore a ``fully'' lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for discourse that takes the basic elements of a (monologic) discourse to be not simply clauses, but larger structure…