1 code implementation • 15 Aug 2023 • Nicholas Edwards, Hannah Rohde, Henry Conklin
Pragmatics is core to natural language, enabling speakers to communicate efficiently with structures like ellipsis and anaphora that can shorten utterances without loss of meaning.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2018 • Ieva Stali{\=u}nait{\.e}, Hannah Rohde, Bonnie Webber, Annie Louis
As entities move from hearer-new (first introduction to the NYT audience) to hearer-old (common knowledge) status, we show empirically that the referring expressions along this trajectory depend on the type of the entity, and exhibit linguistic properties related to becoming common knowledge (e. g., shorter length, less use of appositives, more definiteness).
no code implementations • ACL 2018 • Hannah Rohde, Alex Johnson, er, Nathan Schneider, Bonnie Webber
Theories of discourse coherence posit relations between discourse segments as a key feature of coherent text.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Sharid Lo{\'a}iciga, Luca Bevacqua, Hannah Rohde, Christian Hardmeier
Anaphora resolution systems require both an enumeration of possible candidate antecedents and an identification process of the antecedent.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Christian Hardmeier, Luca Bevacqua, Sharid Lo{\'a}iciga, Hannah Rohde
Proper names of organisations are a special case of collective nouns.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Matthijs Westera, Laia Mayol, Hannah Rohde
We present a new dataset of TED-talks annotated with the questions they evoke and, where available, the answers to these questions.