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Computational Models of Discourse

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States6.892
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2004English
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This course is a graduate level introduction to automatic discourse processing. The emphasis will be on methods and models that have applicability to natural language and speech processing. The class will cover the following topics: discourse structure, models of coherence and cohesion, plan recognition algorithms, and text segmentation. We will study symbolic as well as machine learning methods for discourse analysis.

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