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Institute For Research in Cognitive Science

PDTB BIBLIOGRAPHY

This page provides a complete and updated PDTB Bibliography, including all work that have exploited the PDTB corpus for research or related discourse annotation. If you have a published paper, thesis, or report related to the PDTB, or know of one that you don't see here, please let us know by sending email to
prasadr@uwm.edu

By Year      By Author

 


    2012           

    Harry Bunt, Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi. 2012. First Steps Towards an ISO Standard for Annotating Discourse Relations. To appear in Proceedings of the Joint ISA-7, SRSL-3, and I2MRT LREC 2012 Workshop on Semantic Annotation and the Integration and Interoperability of Multimodal Resources and Tools. Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012.

    Sudheer Kolachina, Rashmi Prasad, Dipti Misra Sharma and Aravind Joshi. 2012. Evalutation of Discourse Relation Annotation in the Hindi Discourse Relation Bank To appear in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012

    Thomas Meyer and Andrei Popescu-Belis. 2012. Using Sense-labeled Discourse Connectives for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the EACL-2012 Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (HyTra), 10 pages, Avignon, FR.


    2011           

    Bonnie Webber, Markus Egg and Valia Kordoni. 2011. Discourse Structure and Language Technology Natural Language Engineering 1 (1): 1-54.

    Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova. Automatic identification of general and specific sentences by leveraging discourse annotations. In Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). November, 2011. Chiang Mai, Thailand.

    Hen-Hsen Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen. 2011. Chinese Discourse Relation Recognition In Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). Pages 1442-1446. Chiang Mai, Thailand. November 2011.

    Silvia Pareti. Annotating Attribution Relations and Their Features. In the CIKM 2011 Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotation (ESAIR-2011). October, 2011. Glasgow, UK.

    Amal Al-Saif and Katja Markert. 2011. Modelling Discourse Relations for Arabic. In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2011). pp 736-747. July, 2011. Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Quang Do, Yee Seng Chan and Dan Roth. 2011. Minimally Supervised Event Causality Identification. In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2011). pp 294-303. July, 2011. Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Manish Agarwal, Rakshit Shah and Prashanth Mannem. 2011. Automatic Question Generation using Discourse Cues. In ACL HLT 2011 Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. pp 1-9. June, 2011. Portland, OR.

    Ziheng Lin, Hwee Tou Ng and Min-Yen Kan. 2011. Automatically Evaluating Text Coherence Using Discourse Relations In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL HLT). pp 997-1006. June, 2011. Portland, OR.

    Thomas Meyer. 2011. Disambiguating Temporal-Contrastive Connectives for Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Student Session. pp 46-51. June, 2011. Portland, OR.

    Ravi Teja Rachakonda and Dipti Misra Sharma. 2011. Creating an Annotated Tamil Corpus as a Discourse Resource. In Proceedings of the 5th Linguistic Annotation Workshop. pp 119-123. Association for Computational Linguistics. June, 2011. Portland, OR.

    Yuping Zhou and Nianwen Xue. 2011. Discourse-constrained Temporal Annotation In Proceedings of the 5th Linguistic Annotation Workshop. pp 161-169. Association for Computational Linguistics. June, 2011. Portland, OR.

    Rashmi Prasad, Susan McRoy, Nadya Frid, Aravind Joshi and Hong Yu. 2011. The Biomedical Discourse Relation Bank. In BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:188

    Yannick Versely. 2011. Towards Finer-Grained Tagging of Discourse Connectives In Proceedings of the Workshop on "Beyond Semantics: Corpus-based Investigations of Pragmatic and Discourse Phenomena". pp 145-155. Bochumer Linguistische Arbeitsberichte (3). February, 2011. Göttingen, Germany.

    Nancy Ide, Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi. 2011. Towards Interoperability for the Penn Discourse Treebank. In Proceedings of the 6th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-6). Oxford, U.K. January, 2011.


    2010           

    Xuchen Yao and Gosse Bouma. 2010. Mining Discourse Treebanks with XQuery In the 9th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theory (TLT-9). Tartu, Estonia. December 2010.

    Yannick Versley. 2010. Discovery of Ambiguous and Unambiguous Discourse Connectives via Annotation Projection. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Annotation and Exploitation of Parallel Corpora (AEPC). Tartu, Estonia. December, 2010.

    Balaji P. Ramesh and Hong Yu. 2010. Identifying discourse connectives in biomedical text. In Proceedings of the Annual Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA 2010), Washington, D.C.

    Hugo Hernault, Danushka Bollegala and Mitsuru Ishizuka. 2010. A Semi-Supervised Approach to Improve Classification of Infrequent Discourse Relations Using Feature Vector Extension. In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2010). Pages 399-409. Association for Computational Linguistics. Cambridge, MA. October, 2010.

    Hugo Hernault, Danushka Bollegala and Mitsuru Ishizuka. 2010. Towards Semi-Supervised Classification of Discourse Relations using Feature Correlations. In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference. Pages 55-58. Association for Computational Linguistics. Tokyo, Japan. September, 2010.

    Annie Louis, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Ani Nenkova. 2010. Using Entity Features to Classify Implicit Discourse Relations. In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference. Pages 59-62. Association for Computational Linguistics. Tokyo, Japan. September, 2010.

    Annie Louis, Aravind Joshi and Ani Nenkova. 2010. Discourse Indicators for Content Selection in Summarization. In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference. Pages 147-156. Association for Computational Linguistics. Tokyo, Japan. September, 2010.

    Zhi Min Zhou, Man Lan, Zheng Yu Niu, Yu Xu and Jian Su. 2010. The Effects of Discourse Connectives Prediction on Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition. In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference. Pages 139-146. Association for Computational Linguistics. Tokyo, Japan. September, 2010.

    Jiří Mírovský, Lucie Mladová and Zdeněk Žabokrtský. Annotation Tool for Discourse in PDT. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) Demonstrations. Pages 775-781. Beijing, China. August, 2010.

    Ziheng Lin, Hwee Tou Ng and Min-Yen Kan. 2010. A PDTB-Styled End-to-End Discourse Parser. Technical Report TRB8/10. School of Computing, National University of Singapore, August.

    Jiří Mírovský, Lucie Mladová and Šárka Zikánová. 2010. Connective-Based Measuring of the Inter-Annotator Agreement in the Annotation of Discourse in PDT. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) Posters. Pages 775-781. Beijing, China. August, 2010.

    Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. 2010. Realization of Discourse Relations by Other Means: Alternative Lexicalizations. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) Posters. Pages 1023-1031. Beijing, China. August, 2010.

    Nianwen Xue and Yuping Zhou. 2010. Applying Syntactic, Semantic and Discourse Constraints in Chinese Temporal Annotation. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) Posters. Pages 1363-1372. Beijing, China. August, 2010.

    Zhi-Min Zhou, Yu Xu, Zheng-Yu Niu, Man Lan, Jian Su and Chew Lim Tan. 2010. Predicting Discourse Connectives for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) Posters. Pages 1507-1514. Beijing, China. August, 2010.

    WenTing Wang, Jian Su and Chew Lim Tan. 2010. Kernel Based Discourse Relation Recognition with Temporal Ordering Information. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Pages 710-719. Uppsala, Sweden. July, 2010.

    Berfin Aktaş, Cem Bozşahin and Deniz ZeyrekDiscourse Relation Configurations in Turkish and an Annotation Environment. In Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop. Pages 202-206. Association for Computational Linguistics. Uppsala, Sweden. July, 2010.

    Matthias Buch-Kromann; Iørn Korzen. 2010. The Unified Annotation of Syntax and Discourse in the Copenhagen Dependency Treebanks. In Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop. Pages 127-131. Association for Computational Linguistics. Uppsala, Sweden. July, 2010.

    Deniz Zeyrek, Işin Demirşahin, Ayişigi Sevdik-Çalli, Hale Ögel Balaban, Ihsan Yalçinkaya and Ümit Deniz Turan.The Annotation Scheme of the Turkish Discourse Bank and an Evaluation of Inconsistent Annotations In Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop. Pages 282-289. Association for Computational Linguistics. Uppsala, Sweden. July, 2010.

    Prashanth Mannem, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi. 2010. Question Generation from Paragraphs at UPenn: QGSTEC System Description. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Question Generation (QG-2010). Pittsburgh, PA. June 2010.

    Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova. Creating Local Coherence: An Empirical Assessment In Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT-2010). Pages 313-316. Los Angeles, CA. June, 2010

    Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. Exploiting Scope for Shallow Discourse Parsing In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010) Pages 2076-2083. Valletta, Malta. May, 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

    Sara Tonelli, Giuseppe Riccardi, Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi. 2010. Annotation of Discourse Relations for Conversational Spoken Dialogs. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010). Pages 2084-2090. Valletta, Malta. May 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

    Amal Al-Saif and Katja Markert. 2010. The Leeds Arabic Discourse Treebank: Annotating discourse connectives for Arabic. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010). Pages 2046-2053. Valletta, Malta. May, 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

    Silvia Pareti and Irina Prodanof. 2010. Annotating Attribution Relations: Towards an Italian Discourse Treebank. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010). Pages 3566-3571. Valletta, Malta. May, 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

    Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Alessia Bianchini. 2010. Corpus-based Semantics of Concession: Where do Expectations Come from? In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010). Pages 3593-3600. Valletta, Malta. May, 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

    Xuchen Yao, Irina Borisova and Mehwish Alam. 2010. PDTB XML: the XMLization of the Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010). Pages 2022-2027. Valletta, Malta. May, 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

    Šárka Zikánová, Lucie Mladová, Jiří Mírovský and Pavlína Jínová. 2010. Typical Cases of Annotators' Disagreement in Discourse Annotations in Prague Dependency Treebank In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010). Pages 2002-2006. Valletta, Malta. May, 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

    2009           

    Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan and Hwee Tou Ng. 2009. Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations in the Penn Discourse Treebank. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2009). Suntec, Singapore. August, 2009.

    Bonnie Webber. 2009. Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Suntec, Singapore. August, 2009.

    Emily Pitler, Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova. 2009. Automatic sense prediction for implicit discourse relations in text In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Suntec, Singapore. August. 2009.

    Swapna Somasundaran and Janyce Wiebe. 2009. Recognizing stances in online debates. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP. Pages 226-234. Suntec, Singapore. August, 2009. Association for Computational Linguistics.

    Ben Wellner. 2009. Sequence Models and Re-ranking Methods for Discourse Parsing. Ph.D. thesis, Brandeis University, Boston, MA.

    Emily Pitler and Ani Nenkova. 2009. Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP. Suntec, Singapore, August, 2009. Association for Computational Linguistics.

    Silvia Pareti. 2009. Towards a Discourse Resource for Italian: Developing an Annotation Schema for Attribution. PhD Thesis Università degli Studi di Pavia. September 2009.

    Umangi Oza, Rashmi Prasad, Sudheer Kolachina, Suman Meena, Dipti Misra Sharma and Aravind Joshi. 2009.Experiments with Annotating Discourse Relations in the Hindi Discourse Relation Bank. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2009). Hyderabad, India. December 2009.

    Umangi Oza, Rashmi Prasad, Sudheer Kolachina, Dipti Misra Sharma and Aravind Joshi. 2009. The Hindi Discourse Relation Bank. In Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW 2009). Suntec, Singapore. July 2009.


    2008           

    Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi. 2008. A Discourse-based Approach to Generating Why-Questions from Texts In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge Arlington, VA, September 2008

    Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. 2008. Departures from Tree Structures in Discourse: Shared Arguments in the Penn Discourse Treebank In Proceedings of the Constraints in Discourse III Workshop> Potsdam, Germany, July-August 2008

    Bonnie Webber and Rashmi Prasad. 2008. Sentence-Initial Discourse Connectives, Discourse Structure and Semantics In Proceedings of the Workshop on Formal and Experimental Approaches to Discourse Particles and Modal Adverbs Hamburg, Germany, August 2008.

    Emily Pitler, Mridhula Raghupathy, Hena Mehta, Ani Nenkova, Alan Lee and Aravind Joshi. 2008. Easily identifiable discourse relations In Proceedings of COLING 2008 Manchester, UK, August 2008.

    Eva Banik and Alan Lee. 2008. A Study of Parentheticals in Discourse: Implications for NLG Systems. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Morocco. June 2008.

    Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Aravind Joshi, and Bonnie Webber. 2008. The Penn Discourse Treebank 2.0. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008) Marrakech, Morocco. June, 2008.

    Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee and Aravind Joshi. 2008. Sense Annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank In Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 4919, 2008. pp 275-286.

    Robert Elwell. 2008. Robust methods for automated discourse connective argument head identification. M.A. Thesis, Faculty of the Graduate School. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX.

    Robert Elwell and Jason Baldridge. 2008. Discourse connective argument identification with connective specific rankers. In Proceedings of ICSC-2008.

    Lucie Mladová, Šárka Zikánová and Eva Hajičová. 2008. From Sentence to Discourse: Building an Annotation Scheme for Discourse Based on Prague Dependency Treebank. In Proceedings of LREC 2008. Marrakech, Morocco. June, 2008.

    Emily Pitler and Ani Nenkova. 2008. Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality. In Proceedings of EMNLP,

    Hong Yu, Nadya Frid, Susan McRoy, Rashmi Prasad, Alan Lee and Aravind Joshi. 2008. A Pilot Annotation to Investigate Discourse Connectivity in Biomedical Text Proceedings of the ACL:HLT 2008 BioNLP Workshop Columbus, Ohio, June 2008.

    Hong Yu, Nadya Frid, Susan McCroy, P Simpson, Rashmi Prasad, Alan Lee and Aravind Joshi. 2008. Exploring Discourse Connectivity in Biomedical Text for Text Mining Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology BioLINK SIG Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

    The PDTB Research Group. 2008. The Penn Discourse Treebank 2.0. Annotation Manual IRCS Technical Report IRCS-08-01 Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

    Rashmi Prasad, Samar Husain, Dipti Mishra Sharma and Aravind Joshi. 2008. Towards an Annotated Corpus of Discourse Relations in Hindi Proceedings of the IJCNLP-08 Workshop on Asian Language Resources Hyderabad, India. January 2008.

    Bonnie Webber and Rashmi Prasad. 2008. Discourse Structure: Swings and Roundabouts Linguistics, Special issue on Structuring Information in Discourse: the Explicit/Implicit Dimension Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Bergljot Behrens (eds)

    2007           

    Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. 2007. Attribution and its Annotation in the Penn Discourse TreeBank In Traitement Automatique des Langues, Special Issue on Computational Approaches to Document and Discourse, Vol.47, n.2.

    Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathy R. McKeown and Owen Rambow. 2007. Building and refining rhetorical-semantic relation models. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT.

    Ben Wellner and James Pustejovsky. 2007. Automatically identifiying the arguments of discourse connectives. In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL.


    2006           

    Katherine Forbes-Riley, Bonnie Webber and Aravind Joshi. 2006 Computing Discourse Semantics: The Predicate-Argument Semantics of Discourse Connectives in D-LTAG Journal of Semantics, 23(1), February, 2006

    Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi, Nikhil Dinesh and Bonnie Webber. 2006. Complexity of Dependencies in Discourse: Are Dependencies in Discourse More Complex Than in Syntax? Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. Prague, Czech Republic. December 2006

    Bonnie Webber. 2006. Accounting for Discourse Relations: Constituency and Dependency In M. Butt, M. Dalrymple and T. King, Intelligent Linguistic Architectures, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2006, pp. 339-360.

    Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. 2006. Annotating Attribution in the Penn Discourse TreeBank Proceedings of the COLING/ACL Workshop on Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text, Sydney, Australia. July 2006.


    2005           

    Nianwen Xue. 2005. Annotating discourse connectives in the Chinese Treebank. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

    Eleni Miltsakaki, Nikhil Dinesh, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. 2005. Experiments on Sense Annotations and Sense Disambiguation of Discourse Connectives. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT2005), Barcelona, Spain. December 2005

    Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki, and Bonnie Webber. 2005. The Penn Discourse TreeBank as a Resource for Natural Language Generation In Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation, Birmingham, U.K. July 2005.

    Bonnie Webber, Aravind Joshi, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, and Kate Forbes. 2005. A Short Introduction to the Penn Discourse TreeBank Copenhagen Working Papers in Language and Speech Processing.

    Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. 2005. Attribution and the (Non)-Alignment of Syntactic and Discourse Arguments of Connectives In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky. Ann Arbor, Michigan. June 2005.


    2004           

    Bonnie Webber. 2004. Extending Lexicalized TAG to Discourse Cognitive Science, 28(5). September 2004.

    Rashmi Prasad, Eleni Miltsakaki, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. 2004. Annotation and Data Mining of the Penn Discourse TreeBank In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation. Barcelona, Spain. 2004.

    Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. 2004. Annotating Discourse Connectives and their Arguments In Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation. Boston, MA. 2004

    Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. 2004. The Penn Discourse TreeBank In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Lisbon, Portugal. 2004.