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Bonnie Webber

9 paper cards in Mova's library · 1999–2023

Bonnie Webber wrote 9 of the papers Mova reads, in 1999–2023, most of them on Discourse analysis, Treebanks, Coreference resolution; often with Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad, Alan Lee.

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Topics: Discourse analysis 8 · Treebanks 3 · Coreference resolution 2

Papers

  1. Annotation Error Detection: Analyzing the Past and Present for a More Coherent Future (2023)
    The authors survey methods for finding annotation errors, reimplement 18 of them, and test them on 9 English datasets for text classification, token labelling and span labelling.
  2. Revisiting Shallow Discourse Parsing in the PDTB-3: Handling Intra-sentential Implicits (2021)
    PDTB-3 added several thousand implicit relations inside sentences (6,234 of 24,369 intra-sentential relations in 46,430 sentences; about 9% of sentences have one, under 1% more than one).
  3. Discourse Annotation in the PDTB: The Next Generation (2018)
    The paper presents what PDTB-3 adds to PDTB-2: about 13,000 new relations (≈40K → ≈53K), mostly inside sentences.
  4. CoNLL 2016 Shared Task on Multilingual Shallow Discourse Parsing (2016)
    The shared task asks systems to find shallow discourse relations in news text. Each relation has a connective (explicit, such as "because", or implicit, inserted between adjacent sentences), two argument spans (Arg1 and Arg2, defined semantically for Chinese) and a sense (for example Cause, Condition or Contrast).…
  5. Reflections on the Penn Discourse TreeBank, Comparable Corpora, and Complementary Annotation (2014)
    A guide to the PDTB, written to correct common misreadings. Discourse relations are grounded in lexical items. The PDTB 2.0 has 18,459 explicit relations (signalled by subordinating or coordinating conjunctions, prepositional phrases or adverbs), 16,224 implicit relations (an inserted connective between adjacent…
  6. The Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0. (2008)
    PDTB-2.0 is a lexically grounded annotation of discourse relations over the 1-million-word Wall Street Journal corpus.
  7. The Penn Discourse Treebank (2004)
    The paper introduces the PDTB project. It adds a discourse layer to the Penn Treebank and Propbank: discourse connectives, their two arguments (Arg1 and Arg2), and, for implicit relations, an inserted connective. Connectives are of four kinds: subordinating and coordinating conjunctions, adverbials, and implicit…
  8. Anaphora and Discourse Structure (2003)
    The paper argues that discourse adverbials such as "then", "otherwise", "instead", "also" and "for example" are anaphors.
  9. Discourse Relations: A Structural and Presuppositional Account Using Lexicalised TAG (1999)
    The paper argues that many discourse relations do not have to be carried by discourse structure. Some are carried by anaphoric presuppositions (van der Sandt 1992) that are licensed by eventualities the hearer is taken to share. Discourse structure is kept bare: lexicalised tree-adjoining grammar (LTAG) trees, with…

Co-authors (17)

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