LOT Winter school course - Coherence relations in discourse

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Coherence relations in discourse

Masterclass
LOT Winter school - January 7-9, 2013
Leiden, The Netherlands

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Instructor: Maite Taboada

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Robert C. Brown (RCB) Building 8206
8888 University Dr.
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
Canada

Tel: +1-778-782-5585
Fax: +1-778-782-5659
E-mail: mtaboada "insert AT sign here" sfu.ca
Web page: http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada

Description

This masterclass focuses on coherence relations in discourse. By coherence relations we understand those between propositions, within and across sentences, referred to as coherence relations, discourse relations, or rhetorical relations. They are paratactic (coordinate) or hypotactic (subordinate) relations that hold across two or more text spans, such as Elaboration, Condition, Concession, Antithesis or Summary. Coherence relations have been proposed as an explanation for the construction of coherence in discourse.
Topics of particular interest in this course will be:

  • Cognitive validity of coherence relations. Are they cognitive entities or not?
  • Signalling of relations in discourse. Types of signals and status of ‘unsignalled’ or implicit relations
  • Corpus studies, within and across genres and languages
  • Computational applications (in information extraction, summarization, essay scoring, sentiment analysis)

Reading list

Schedule

Monday, January 7

  • General introduction by Maite Taboada
  • Short (5 minute) presentation by the students on their topics

Tuesday, January 8

  • Student presentations:
    • Marta Andersson
    • Nynke van Vliet
    • Bram Vertommen

Wednesday, January 9

  • Student presentations:
    • Matthias Passer
    • Andres Karjus
  • Discussion and summary

(No class January 10 or 11)

Guidelines for student presentations

  • Approximately 30 minute presentation of the thesis topic, and how it relates to coherence relations
  • 10 minutes of discussion after the presentation
  • On the first day, you will be asked to make a brief introduction to your topic. At that time, also come prepared with some questions you have about your topic at this point, and how you think this masterclass will help you answer them.

 

 

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