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Discourse structure representation
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Discourse is not a random collection of sentences. Like other linguistic units, it has structure that makes it coherent. Discourse structure is also relevant to sentence-level syntax and semantics, as it is known to affect acceptability judgements.
This course overviews major existing theories of discourse structure, with particular focus on the way discourse structure is formally represented. The theories to be discussed include: Discourse Representation Theory (DRT), Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT), Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) and Question Under Discussion (QUD) theory. Besides the content of each theory, the course will also examine the following two issues:
1. How informative/useful each theory is in accounting for sentence-level phenomena such as ellipsis and anaphora.
2. What theories are actually used in linguistics-oriented and engineering-oriented corpus annotation, and how.
At the end of the course, students will have a clear idea of various theories of discourse representation and the current research and practice in linguistics and natural language processing, and be ready to do his/her own analysis/resource development using an appropriate theory.
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The class will read papers on discourse structure representation and textbook chapters on related semantic/pragmatic phenomena.
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談話構造、意味論、語用論、言語学、自然言語処理、コーパス言語学、言語資源開発
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discourse structure, semantics, pragmatics, linguistics, natural language processing, corpus linguistics, language resource development
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ALH1
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Individual research (by week 6)
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ALH2
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Individual research (by week 12)
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Read articles
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Assignments (incl. ALH) 30%
Term paper 40%
Participation 30%
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Read the assigned readings before class.
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- Prerequisites: Semantics/Pragmatics (or an equivalent course)
- In principle, the class will be conducted in Japanese. However, (almost) all course readings are in English, and students are strongly encouraged to write their assignments and term paper in English.
- To Ph.D students who wish to take this course: please e-mail the lecturer before the first class meeting.
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