Discourse Processing of Dialogues with Multiple Threads
Abstract
In this paper we will present our ongoing work on a plan-based discourse processor developed in the context of the Enthusiast Spanish to English translation system as part of the JANUS multi-lingual speech-to-speech translation system. We will demonstrate that theories of discourse which postulate a strict tree structure of discourse on either the intentional or attentional level are not totally adequate for handling spontaneous dialogues. We will present our extension to this approach along with its implementation in our plan-based discourse processor. We will demonstrate that the implementation of our approach outperforms an implementation based on the strict tree structure approach.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9504025,
title = {Discourse Processing of Dialogues with Multiple Threads},
author = {Carolyn Penstein Rose' and Barbara Di Eugenio and Lori S. Levin and Carol Van Ess-Dykema},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9504025},
year = {2008}
}
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