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Non-sentential utterances (NSU) in dialog

Non-sentential utterances (NSU) in dialog. Silvie Cinko vá (CU) Companions Semantic Representation and Dialog Interfacing Workshop Edinburgh, March 5, 2008. Non-sentential utterances (NSU). phrases (NP, PP, ADVP, ADJP) Me. At 5 o'clock. Blue. With Mary. How nice! Sure.

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Non-sentential utterances (NSU) in dialog

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  1. Non-sentential utterances (NSU)in dialog Silvie Cinková (CU) Companions Semantic Representation and Dialog Interfacing Workshop Edinburgh, March 5, 2008

  2. Non-sentential utterances (NSU) • phrases (NP, PP, ADVP, ADJP) • Me. • At 5 o'clock. • Blue. • With Mary. • How nice! • Sure. • interjections • Yeah. • Mhm. • Oh, no! • interjections attached to phrases • No, Billy. • Oh, sure.

  3. Non-sentential utterances (NSU) • subordinate clause without main clause • If he goes with me. • Not as long as I'm asleep. • Skiing. • phrase combinations in coordination or apposition • Me and Mary. • With Mary in the morning or shopping at Tesco. • And coordinator. • Or without.

  4. TR instruments available • syntactic dependency • semantic labeling • morphosyntactic features (from a-layer) • valency • grammatical coreference • textual coreference • ellipsis restoration • topic-focus articulation

  5. Utterance-response pair response NSU utterance U "Who's that?" "Peggy." UPred UMods Functors (semantic labels)

  6. Utterance-response pair Who's that? [Peggy.] ("That is Peggy"). Peggy.

  7. Predicate with interjections Mhm. Yes. No, Billy.

  8. Coreferential predicate Shopping with Mary. Two students?

  9. Non-coreferential predicate Okay? What?!

  10. NSU attached to a main clause I am allowed to record you, okay?

  11. NSU with a subordinate clause To the cinema in the evening if you go with me.

  12. Restored predicate in the antecedent A: It's all vague. B: Vague and? A: Vague ideas and people.

  13. NSUMods versus UMods • attribute: response_type • values: • overrules • bridging • wh-path • other • form: reference (arrow) to antecedent node

  14. Non-conflicting Modifier addition [It will be] probably not [worth getting]. Yes [I brought the book].

  15. Overruling with a different Mod I'm at a little place called Ellenthorpe. Hellenthorpe.

  16. Why highest common node – 1:0 !!! A: Did you hear any news? B: No news. X: Do you sell cats? Y: No cats.

  17. Overruling by an identical modifier A: There are only two people in the class. B: Two people?

  18. Bridging There are only two people in the class. Two students?

  19. Bridging A: You lift the crane out, so this part will come up. B: The end?

  20. Textual coreference vs. overruling A: Peter should introduce Paul to Mary. B: Rather her to him.

  21. Other A: He entered the largest room. B: Room 128? A: I don't know the number.

  22. Wh-path "That is Peggy-who" "That is Peggy." "Peggy."

  23. Wh-path - different functor matches • up to the annotator • we expect regular alternation patterns Where would you like to go tomorrow? Shopping with Mary.

  24. Where would you like to go tomorrow? Perhaps with Mom in the morning, shopping with Mary in the mall in the afternoon, and to the cinema in the evening if you go with me.

  25. Wh-path vs. overruling • wh-word in the antecedent utterance: • Who is that? • John. • "sluice": • I want it tomorrow. • When? • I have missed it. • What?! wh-path overruling

  26. Choice question A: Which drink do you like best: pepsi or coke? B: Beer.

  27. Summary • U-NSU pairs • NSU inherits the predicate of U (coreference) • NSU inherits all modifiers of U • NSU's own modifiers overrule the inherited • overrule • bridging • wh-path • other

  28. References • Raquel Fernández, Jonathan Ginzburg, and Shalom Lappin (2007): Classifying Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach. Computational Linguistics, Volume 33, Nr. 3. MIT Press for the Association for Computational Linguistics • Eva Hajičová (ed) (1995): Eva Hajičová (ed.), Text-And-Inference-Based Approach to Question Answering, Prague, 1995

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