PhD Topics

Discourse structure

Guidelines

In cooperation with the tutor, the applicant will choose an aspect of the analysis of the discourse structure he/she is interested in. The corpus data will be chosen according to the exact topic of the work.

References

Asher, Nicholas. 1993. Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse. Norwell: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Bärenfänger, Maja, Daniela Goecke, Mirco Hilbert, Harald Lüngen and Maik Stührenberg. 2008. Anaphora as an Indicator of Elaboration: A Corpus Study. Journal for Language Technologies and Computational Linguistics, 15(2), 49–72.

Chafe, Wallace L. 1976. Givenness, Contrastiveness, Definiteness, Subjects, Topics, and Point of View. In Charles N. Li (ed.), Subject and Topic. Cambridge, MA, USA: Academic Press,
25–55.

Grosz, Barbara J. and Candace L. Sidner. 1986. Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse. Computational Linguistics, 12(3), 175–204.

Grosz, Barbara J., Scott Weinstein and Aravind Joshi. 1995. Centering: A Framework for Modeling the Local Coherence of Discourse. Computational Linguistics, 21(2), 203–225.

Hajičová, Eva. 2012. Topic–Focus Revisited (Through the Eyes of the Prague Dependency Treebank). In Jurij D. Apresjan (ed.), Smysly, teksty i drugie zachvatyvajuščie sjužety. Sbornik statej v čest 80-letija Igorja Aleksandroviča Melčuka. Moscow: Jazyky slavjanskoj kultury, 218–232.

Hajičová, Eva, Barbara Partee and Petr Sgall. 1998. Topic–Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Jínová, Pavlína, Lucie Poláková and Jiří Mírovský. 2014. Sentence Structure and Discourse Structure (Possible Parallels). In Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner (eds.), Dependency Linguistics. Recent Advances in Linguistic Theory Using Dependency Structures.

Poláková, Lucie, Pavlína Jínová and Jiří Mírovský. 2012. Interplay of Coreference and Discourse Relations: Discourse Connectives with a Referential Component. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis (eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12). Istanbul: European Language Resources Association, 146–153.

Prasad, Rashmi, Eleni Miltsakaki, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Aravind Joshi, Livio Robaldo and Bonnie Webber. 2007. The Penn Discourse Treebank 2.0 Annotation Manual. Technical report IRCS-08-01. Philadelphia: Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania. [cit. 2015_08_30]. Available from .

Zikánová Šárka, Hajičová Eva, Hladká Barbora, Jínová Pavlína, Mírovský Jiří, Nedoluzhko Anna, Poláková Lucie, Rysová Kateřina, Rysová Magdaléna, Václ Jan. 2015. Discourse and Coherence. From the Sentence Structure to Relations in Text. Prague: UFAL MFF UK, 274 pp.