TOPIC CONTINUITY FOR DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUES

Topic continuity, one of the major linguistic devices for text cohesion, plays important roles in multi-sentential scenario. It integrates multiple sentences into a holistic unit | e.g., a cohesive paragraph or a uent dialogue | distinguishing them from a set of random sentences. In this thesis, we study how topic continuity helps building computational models for written discourse and oral dialogues, two forms of multi-sentential texts.

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• LEI WENQIANG

• discourse, dialogue