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Discourse Coherence, Reference Grounding and Goal Oriented Dialogue
Baber Khalid, Malihe Alikhani, Michael Fellner +2
Prior approaches to realizing mixed-initiative human--computer referential communication have adopted information-state or collaborative problem-solving approaches. In this paper,…
Clue: Cross-modal Coherence Modeling for Caption Generation
Malihe Alikhani, Piyush Sharma, Shengjie Li +2
We use coherence relations inspired by computational models of discourse to study the information needs and goals of image captioning. Using an annotation protocol specifically dev…
AI2D-RST: A multimodal corpus of 1000 primary school science diagrams
Tuomo Hiippala, Malihe Alikhani, Jonas Haverinen +6
This article introduces AI2D-RST, a multimodal corpus of 1000 English-language diagrams that represent topics in primary school natural sciences, such as food webs, life cycles, mo…
CITE: A Corpus of Image-Text Discourse Relations
Malihe Alikhani, Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, Gerard de Melo +1
This paper presents a novel crowd-sourced resource for multimodal discourse: our resource characterizes inferences in image-text contexts in the domain of cooking recipes in the fo…
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…