Coherence in natural language
Subtitle: data structures and applications
By: Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson.
Contributors: Gibson, Edward, 1962-
Publisher: MIT Press; A Bradford Book
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Cohesion (Linguistics); Discourse analysis.; Computational linguistics.
Description: "In Coherence in Natural Language, Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson specify and evaluate criteria for descriptively adequate data structures for representing discourse coherence. They test the influence of discourse structure on pronoun processing, evaluate different approaches for determining the relative importance of document segments, and propose a new coherence-based algorithm to accomplish this task. Their book offers the first large-scale empirical evaluation of data structures for representing coherence and also includes novel psycholinguistic tests of existing information extraction and text summarization systems."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.