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Coherence Understanding Through Cohesion Markers: The Case of Child Spoken Language. / Eismont, Polina ; Riekhakaynen, Elena ; Metelyagin, Vladislav .
Speech and Computer: 20th International Conference, SPECOM 2018, Leipzig, Germany, September 18–22, 2018, Proceedings. Cham : Springer Nature, 2018. p. 145-154 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Vol. 11096).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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T1 - Coherence Understanding Through Cohesion Markers: The Case of Child Spoken Language
AU - Eismont, Polina
AU - Riekhakaynen, Elena
AU - Metelyagin, Vladislav
N1 - Eismont P., Metelyagin V., Riekhakaynen E. (2018) Coherence Understanding Through Cohesion Markers: The Case of Child Spoken Language. In: Karpov A., Jokisch O., Potapova R. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11096. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99579-3_16
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Coherence and cohesion are crucial for organizing text semantics and syntax. They both may be described in terms of topic-focus structure, but the surface syntactic topic-focus structure does not coincide with that of deep semantics, and the automatic analysis of coherence which refers to the meaning of the whole text is complicated. The paper presents a Topic-Focus Annotating Parser (TFAP) that was trained on the corpus of Russian unprepared child oral narratives (213 narratives elicited by native Russian children aged from two years seven months to seven years six months). According to the results, children develop their narrative skills both in coherence and cohesion, but at the earlier stages of language acquisition, parsing errors reflect the speaker’s low level of narrative skills, while at the later stages (from five years seven months to seven years six months), when the basic rules of narrative organization are already acquired, parsing errors may be caused by the deficiencies of the parser. The topic-focus schemes we obtained support Leonid Sakharny’s theoretical approach to cognitive representation of coherence.
AB - Coherence and cohesion are crucial for organizing text semantics and syntax. They both may be described in terms of topic-focus structure, but the surface syntactic topic-focus structure does not coincide with that of deep semantics, and the automatic analysis of coherence which refers to the meaning of the whole text is complicated. The paper presents a Topic-Focus Annotating Parser (TFAP) that was trained on the corpus of Russian unprepared child oral narratives (213 narratives elicited by native Russian children aged from two years seven months to seven years six months). According to the results, children develop their narrative skills both in coherence and cohesion, but at the earlier stages of language acquisition, parsing errors reflect the speaker’s low level of narrative skills, while at the later stages (from five years seven months to seven years six months), when the basic rules of narrative organization are already acquired, parsing errors may be caused by the deficiencies of the parser. The topic-focus schemes we obtained support Leonid Sakharny’s theoretical approach to cognitive representation of coherence.
KW - Child language
KW - Coherence
KW - Cohesion
KW - Spoken narrative
KW - Topic-Focus Annotating Parser
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-99579-3_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-99579-3_16
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-319-99578-6
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 145
EP - 154
BT - Speech and Computer
PB - Springer Nature
CY - Cham
T2 - 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer
Y2 - 18 September 2018 through 22 September 2018
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