Research

Have you ever wondered how people concede a counterpoint that is contrary to what they want to say? How does it work in speech versus in writing? How about in Spanish or Chinese? Our recently released DiscoExplor...

GUM is an open source multilayer corpus of richly annotated web texts from eight text types. The corpus is collected and expanded by students as part of the curriculum in More

With the release of Version 2.6 of Universal Dependencies, our focus has shifted to handling Named and Non-Named Entity Recognition (NER/NNER) in Coptic data. As a result of intensive work by the Coptic Scriptorium team in the past few months,...

Coptic Scriptorium’s Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools now support two new features:

... in search of discourse signals! We now know a lot about what cues people use to identify discourse relations, but can we teach computers to notice the same signals?

Does discourse structure constrain where we talk about what? Research on recurring mentions within discourse graphs shows back-reference is sensitive to the reasons why sentences and groups of sentences are uttered. In the image above, ...