Arndt Riester

5 paper cards in Mova's library · 2009–2021

Arndt Riester wrote 5 of the papers Mova reads, in 2009–2021, most of them on Discourse analysis, Coreference resolution; often with Kordula De Kuthy, Amalia Canes Nápoles, Aoife Cahill.

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measured, no gain — Add a bridging pass after coreference in coref/src/sieve.rs, with high-precision rules from the paper's list, only for mentions the sieves left unlinked and only for unmodified definites (the N): building part → the latest building (house, castle, hut … the… (Bridging resolution: Task definition, corpus resources and… · bridging for unmodified «the N» (building part, relative, body part → latest building/person, ≤3 sentences) scored against GUM Bridge=: 3 links on dev (1…)

Combined discourse representations: Coherence relations and questions under Discussion (2021)
A short paper that analyses one passage (a section of a 2004 political keynote) three ways: with the Cognitive approach to Coherence Relations (CCR), with RST, and as a QUD tree.
Annotation Guidelines for Questions under Discussion and Information Structure (2018)
The guidelines give a step-by-step procedure for reading the information structure of a text from its context.
Bridging resolution: Task definition, corpus resources and rule-based experiments (2018)
Bridging anaphors are new referents that are interpreted through an earlier, non-identical one («The city is planning a new town hall and the construction will start next week» — the construction of the town hall).
QUD-Based Annotation of Discourse Structure and Information Structure: Tool and Evaluation (2018)
The paper tests the QUD-tree method of Riester and colleagues: a text is cut into atomic assertions (sentences, plus splits at coordinations and before optional adjuncts), each assertion is the answer to one explicit or implicit question under discussion, and the questions form the inner nodes of a tree whose leaves…
Incorporating Information Status into Generation Ranking (2009)
The paper adds information-status (IS) features to a log-linear surface realisation ranker for German (LFG).