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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R40036/01
Title:	Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text
Principal Investigator:	Lascarides, Professor A
Other Investigators:	Lapata, Professor M
Researcher Co-Investigators:	Dr M Lapata
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Department:	Sch of Informatics
Organisation:	University of Edinburgh
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 March 2002	Ends:	30 June 2005	Value (£):	233,510
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Human Communication in ICT
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The proposed research will deliver a fully automatic system for inferring the rhetorical relations and the temporal structure of real narrative text. We will model temporal progression by exploiting a hybrid system, interfacing a probabilistic component with a symbolic one. We will use probabilistic modelling to combine multiple sources of linguistic knowledge (i.e., features) extracted automatically from large corpora to infer rhetorical relations. The symbolic component will specify how the rhetorical relations have specific semantic effects on the text, particularly its temporal content. Such an approach can deal with domain independent narrative text, it is robust, and relatively inexpensive as it assumes that crucial pragmatic features can be discovered by analysing the linguistic environment, as approximated by large corpora.
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