Coherence and Coreference

By Jerry R. Hobbs. 1979

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Discourse-Based Objectives for Fast Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning (2017, background): “Hobbs (1979) presents a formal treatment of this phenomenon.”
ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations (2019, background): “Coherence and cohesion in discourse have been widely studied and many phenomena have been identified that connect neighboring text segments (Hobbs, 1979; Halliday & Hasan, 1976; Grosz et al., 1995).”
Do Long-Range Language Models Actually Use Long-Range Context? (2021, background): “Understanding long documents requires modeling various discourse-level phenomena, including anaphora (Hobbs, 1979; Grosz et al., 1995), argu-ment structure (Grimshaw, 1990), narrative scripts and trajectories (Schank and Abelson, 1977; Labov and Waletzky, 1997), and causal links between concepts…”
Grammatical and information-structural influences on pronoun production (2014, methodology): “According to Hobbs (1979), for example, pronouns are represented merely as free variables that get bound to referents as a side-effect of discourse-level inference processes.”
Speech-Graphics Dialogue Systems (1997, unknown): “(Hobbs, 1979; Reichman, 1985; Grosz and Sidner, 1986; Lochbaurn, 1991).”
Causal connectives in discourse processing: How differences in subjectivity are reflected in eye movements (2013, background): “Such coherence relations (Hobbs, 1979; Mann & Thompson, 1988; Sanders, Spooren, & Noordman, 1992) can be of an additive, causal, temporal, or adversative nature.”
The Winograd Schema Challenge and Reasoning about Correlation (2015, background): “1 In the tradition of (Hobbs 1979) and (Kehler et al.”
Strategic conversation (2012, background): “So the arc labelled ¬iqap and its leaf with utility (0,−1) is 2:19 pruned.”
On the coherence and structure of discourse (1985, background): “(12) But uh you know I dropped them [goods stolen from luggage] in my pocket, I tied the duffel bag up and the suitcase, and I left it there.”
Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension. (1994, background): “Detailed analyses of global coherence are available in several fields: text linguistics (Grimes, 1975; Halliday & Hasan, 1976), artificial intelligence (Dyer, 1983;Hobbs, 1979;Lehnert, 1981), education (Meyer, 1985), and cognitive psychology (J. M. Mandler , 1984; van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983).”
DisSent: Learning Sentence Representations from Explicit Discourse Relations (2019, background): “…sim-pliﬁcation from related work in discourse theory, e.g. describing the wealth of complex structures a discourse can take (Webber et al., 2003) or compiling a comprehensive set of discourse relations (Rashmi et al., 2008; Hobbs, 1979, 1985; Jasin-skaja and Karagjosova, 2015; Knott, 1996).”
Coreference and discourse coherence in L2: The roles of grammatical aspect and referential form (2017, background): “…to choose an ongoing-event driven coherence relation following imperfective aspect, consistent with previous findings and with expectationbased accounts of reference processing that propose a close relation between coreference and coherence choices (Hobbs, 1979; Kehler, 2002; Kehler et al., 2008).”
Is Incoherence Surprising? Targeted Evaluation of Coherence Prediction from Language Models (2021, background): “, 2020; Hu et al., 2020) or world knowledge (Trinh and Le, 2019; Tamborrino et al., 2020). They have also been shown to exhibit, within these tasks, interesting divergences from expectation and sensitivity to confounding factors (e.g. McCoy et al. (2019)).”