Identifying justifications in written dialogs

Or Biran; Owen Rambow

doi:10.1109/ICSC.2011.41

Identifying justifications in written dialogs

Or Biran
, Owen Rambow

Linguistics

Columbia University

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Abstract

In written dialog, discourse participants need to justify claims they make, to convince the reader the claim is true and/or relevant to the discourse. This paper presents a new task (with an associated corpus), namely detecting such justifications. We investigate the nature of such justifications, and observe that the justifications themselves often contain discourse structure. We therefore develop a method to detect the existence of certain types of discourse relations, which helps us classify whether a segment is a justification or not. Our task is novel, and our work is novel in that it uses a large set of connectives (which we call indicators), and in that it uses a large set of discourse relations, without choosing among them.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2011
Pages	162-168
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC.2011.41
State	Published - 2011
Event	5th Annual IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2011 - Palo Alto, CA, United States Duration: Sep 18 2011 → Sep 21 2011

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Name	Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2011

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Conference	5th Annual IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2011
Country/Territory	United States
City	Palo Alto, CA
Period	09/18/11 → 09/21/11

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Biran, O & Rambow, O 2011, Identifying justifications in written dialogs. in Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2011., 6061427, Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2011, pp. 162-168, 5th Annual IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2011, Palo Alto, CA, United States, 09/18/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC.2011.41

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