Lynn Carlson

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 1994–2001

Lynn Carlson wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 1994–2001, most of them on Discourse analysis, Machine translation; often with Daniel Marcu, Elizabeth Cooper, Mary Ellen Okurovsky.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (2001)
The paper describes how the RST Discourse Treebank was built: 385 American English articles from the Penn Treebank, each annotated with a rhetorical structure tree in Rhetorical Structure Theory.
Representing Text Meaning for Multilingual Knowledge-Based Machine Translation (1994)
The Mikrokosmos project defines a text meaning representation (TMR) as its interlingua. A TMR is a frame notation: each clause becomes an instance of an ontology event or property, with slots for time, aspect and polarity, and modifying roles. Pragmatic content sits beside the propositions. Six attitude types…