Computational and Conversational Discourse - Burning Issues - An Interdisciplinary Account

People engage in discourse every day - from writing letters and presenting papers to simple discussions. Yet discourse is a complex and fascinating phenomenon that is not well understood. This volume stems from a multidisciplinary workshop in which eminent scholars in linguistics, sociology and computational linguistics presented various aspects of discourse. The topics treated range from multi-party conversational interactions to deconstructing text from various perspectives, considering topic-focus development and discourse structure, and an empirical study of discourse segmentation. The chapters not only describe each author's favorite burning issue in discourse but also provide a fascinating view of the research methodology and style of argumentation in each field.

List of contents

1 Issues of Relevance for Discourse Analysis: Contingency in Action, Interaction, and Co-Participant Context.- 2 Types of Structure: Deconstructing Notions of Constituency in Clause and Text.- 3 Interaction and Syntax in the Structure of Conversational Discourse: Collaboration, Overlap, and Syntactic Dissociation.- 4 The Information Structure of the Sentence and the Coherence of Discourse.- 5 Discourse Coherence and Segmentation.- 6 On the Relation Between the Informational and Intentional Perspectives on Discourse.- 7 Empirical Analysis of Three Dimensions of Spoken Discourse: Segmentation, Coherence, and Linguistic Devices.- Authors' Biographies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eduar H Hovy (Editor), Eduard H Hovy (Editor), Eduard H. Hovy (Editor), R Scott (Editor), R Scott (Editor), Donia R. Scott (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2010
• EAN: 9783642082443
• ISBN: 978-3-642-08244-3
• No. of pages: 202
• Illustrations: XII, 202 p.
• Series: NATO ASI Series / Computer and Systems Sciences; NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences; NATO ASI Series; NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences; Nato ASI Subseries F:
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering