University of Pennsylvania

Institute For Research in Cognitive Science

PDTB PUBLICATIONS

• 2012:
  • First Steps Towards an ISO Standard for Annotating Discourse Relations
    Harry Bunt, Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi
    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
  • Evalutation of Discourse Relation Annotation in the Hindi Discourse Relation Bank
    Sudheer Kolachina, Rashmi Prasad, Dipti Misra Sharma and Aravind Joshi
    To appear in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
    Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012

• 2011:
  • Discourse Structure and Language Technology
    Bonnie Webber, Markus Egg and Valia Kordoni
    Natural Language Engineering 1 (1): 1-54, 2011
  • Automatic identification of general and specific sentences by leveraging discourse annotations
    Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
    Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)
    Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2011
  • The Biomedical Discourse Relation Bank
    Rashmi Prasad, Susan McRoy, Nadya Frid, Aravind Joshi and Hong Yu.
    BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:188
  • Towards Interoperability for the Penn Discourse Treebank
    Nancy Ide, Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi
    Proceedings of the 6th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-6)
    Oxford, U.K., January 2011

• 2010:
  • Discourse Indicators for Content Selection in Summarization. (Best Student Paper)
    Annie Louis, Aravind Joshi and Ani Nenkova.
    Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference. Pages 147-156.
    Tokyo, Japan, September, 2010.
  • Using Entity Features to Classify Implicit Discourse Relations
    Annie Louis, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Ani Nenkova
    Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference
    Tokyo, Japan, September 2010
  • Realization of Discourse Relations by Other Means: Alternative Lexicalizations
    Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber
    Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010)
    Beijing, China, August 2010
  • Question Generation from Paragraphs at UPenn: QGSTEC System Description
    Prashanth Mannem, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi
    Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Question Generation (QG2010)
    Pittsburgh, PA, June 2010
  • Creating Local Coherence: An Empirical Assessment
    Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
    Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010
    Los Angeles, CA, June 2010
  • Exploiting Scope for Shallow Discourse Parsing
    Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber
    Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010)
    Valletta, Malta, May 2010
  • Annotation of Discourse Relations for Conversational Spoken Dialogs
    Sara Tonelli, Giuseppe Riccardi, Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi
    Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010)
    Valletta, Malta, May 2010

• 2009:
  • Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank
    Bonnie Webber
    Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Singapore, August 2009. (The lists of files comprising each genre used in the experiments can be found here, along with corresponding lists based on meta-data found in the ACL/DCI 1989 WSJ corpus.)
  • Automatic sense prediction for implicit discourse relations in text
    Emily Pitler, Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova
    Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Singapore, August 2009.
  • Using Syntax to Disambiguate Explicit Discourse Connectives in Text
    Emily Pitler and Ani Nenkova
    Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Singapore, August 2009.

• 2008:
  • A Discourse-based Approach to Generating Why-Questions from Texts
    Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi
    Proceedings of the Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge
    Arlington, VA, September 2008
  • Departures from Tree Structures in Discourse: Shared Arguments in the Penn Discourse Treebank
    Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber
    Proceedings of the Constraints in Discourse III Workshop
    Potsdam, Germany, July-August 2008
  • Sentence-Initial Discourse Connectives, Discourse Structure and Semantics
    Bonnie Webber and Rashmi Prasad
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Formal and Experimental Approaches to Discourse Particles and Modal Adverbs
    Hamburg, Germany, August 2008.
  • Easily identifiable discourse relations
    Emily Pitler, Mridhula Raghupathy, Hena Mehta, Ani Nenkova, Alan Lee and Aravind Joshi
    Proceedings of COLING 2008
    Manchester, UK, August 2008.
  • A Study of Parentheticals in Discourse: Implications for NLG Systems.
    Eva Banik and Alan Lee
    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008).
    Marrakech, Morocco. June 2008.
  • The Penn Discourse Treebank 2.0.
    Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Aravind Joshi, and Bonnie Webber
    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008)
  • Sense Annotation in the Penn Discourse Treebank
    Eleni Miltsakaki, Livio Robaldo, Alan Lee and Aravind Joshi
    Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 4919, 2008. pp 275-286.

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

• 2006:
  • Computing Discourse Semantics: The Predicate-Argument Semantics of Discourse Connectives in D-LTAG
    Katherine Forbes-Riley, Bonnie Webber and Aravind Joshi
    Journal of Semantics, 23(1), February, 2006
  • Complexity of Dependencies in Discourse: Are Dependencies in Discourse More Complex Than in Syntax?
    Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi, Nikhil Dinesh and Bonnie Webber
    Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. Prague, Czech Republic. December 2006
  • Accounting for Discourse Relations: Constituency and Dependency
    Bonnie Webber.
    In M. Butt, M. Dalrymple and T. King, Intelligent Linguistic Architectures, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2006, pp. 339-360.
  • Discourse Annotation: Discourse Connectives and Discourse Relations
    Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad and Bonnie Webber
    Tutorial at the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, Australia. July 2006.
  • Annotating Attribution in the Penn Discourse TreeBank
    Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber
    Proceedings of the COLING/ACL Workshop on Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text, Sydney, Australia. July 2006.
  • The Penn Discourse TreeBank 1.0. Annotation Manual
    The PDTB Research Group
    IRCS Technical Report IRCS-06-01, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania. March 2006.

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

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

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

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

• 2004:
  • D-LTAG: Extending Lexicalized TAG to Discourse
    Bonnie Webber
    Cognitive Science, 28(5). September 2004.

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

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

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

• 2003:
  • Computing Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics
    Bonnie Webber.
    Euro Summer School - Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 18, Prague 6. March 2003

  • Anaphoric Arguments of Discourse Connectives: Semantic Properties of Antecedents versus Non-antecedents
    Eleni Miltsakaki, Cassandre Creswell, Katherine Forbes, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
    In Proceedings of the Computational Treatment of Anaphora Workshop, EACL 2003, Budapest. 2003

  • D-LTAG System: Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar.
    Katherine Forbes, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Anoop Sarkar, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
    Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Special Issue: Discourse and Information Structure. Volume 12 (3). 2003

  • Anaphora and Discourse Structure
    Bonnie Webber, Aravind Joshi, Matthew Stone, and Alistair Knott.
    Computational Linguistics 29(4). pp. 545-587. 2003

• 2002:
  • The Discourse Anaphoric Properties of Connectives
    Cassandre Cresswell, Katherine Forbes, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
    4th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC). 2002

  • A Semantic Account of Adverbials as Discourse Connectives
    Katherine Forbes and Bonnie Webber.
    3rd SIGDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Philadelphia PA. July 2002

• 2001:
  • D-LTAG System: Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar.
    Katherine Forbes, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Anoop Sarkar, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber.
    ESSLLI 2001 Workshop on "Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics." 2001

• 1999:
  • What are Little Texts Made of? A Structural and Presuppositional Account using Lexicalised TAG
    Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone and Aravind Joshi.
    International Workshop on Levels of Representation in Discourse (LORID'99), University of Edinburgh. July 1999

  • Discourse Relations: A Structural and Presuppositional Account using Lexicalised TAG
    Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone and Aravind Joshi.
    Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, College Park MD. June 1999

  • Multiple Discourse Connectives in a Lexicalized Grammar for Discourse
    Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott and Aravind Joshi.
    Third International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, The Netherlands. January 1999

• 1998:
  • Anchoring a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining grammar for Discourse
    Bonnie Webber and Aravind Joshi.
    ACL/COLING Workshop on Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers, Montreal, Canada. August 1998.