Homework 1: Discourse Structure
Annotate the following discourse for one of the annotation schemes
discussed in class today,
- Barbara J. Grosz, Candace L. Sidner.Attention,
Intentions, and the
Structure of Discourse.
Computational
Linguistics, volume 12, number 3, July-September 1986, pp.
175-204.
- Mann, William C. & Sandra A. Thompson. 1988. Rhetorical
Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text
organization. Text 8(3). 243-281.
- Bunt, Harry, and Rashmi Prasad. ISO DR-Core (ISO 24617-8): Core concepts for the annotation of discourse relations. Proceedings 12th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-12). 2016
For the ISO scheme, indicate the type of relations and which
utterances they connect. For RST, identify the nucleus , satellite,
(each could be an utterance number below, or a combination of multiple
utterances) and
relation type. For Grosz & Sidner, identify the discourse segments (assign a new id)
boundaries (indicate which utterances begin and end each of them), describe the discourse segment purpose, and dominance relations between related discourse segment purposes.
- Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing.
- When I started here, all there was was swamp.
- Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp,
- but I built it all the same,
- just to show 'em.
- It sank into the swamp.
- So, I built a second one.
- That sank into the swamp.
- So, I built a third one.
- That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp,
- but the fourth one... stayed up!
- And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.