Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Department of Linguistics at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Discourse deixis refers to a type of reference in which certain expressions (e.g. this, that, it, etc.) are used to refer to discourse entities that are typically represented by verbal phrases and whole clauses or sentences, such as facts, propositions, or events. The variety of forms these expressions take renders them difficult to handle automatically, since many of the features commonly used for anaphora resolution are not available.
This project has as its goal a detailed quantitative investigation of the properties of discourse deixis as well as the construction of computational systems capable of processing such expressions adequately. I also plan to investigate to what degree interpreting these expressions can improve performance in other NLP tasks, such as automatic summarization or translation.
Reference Corpus of Middle High German
Dipper, Stefanie, Simone Schultz-Balluff, Marcel Bollmann, Julia Krasselt, Florian Petran, Adam Roussel, Katrin Ortmann, Katharina Bort, and Helena Wedig. 2018. “Anselm Corpus.” Ruhr-Universität Bochum: https://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/anselm/. Version 1.0. ISLRN 568-178-806-856-4.
Kolhatkar, Varada, Adam Roussel, Stefanie Dipper, and Heike Zinsmeister. 2018. “Anaphora with Non-Nominal Antecedents in Computational Linguistics: A Survey.” Computational Linguistics 44 (3): 547–612. https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00327.
Ortmann, Katrin, Adam Roussel, and Stefanie Dipper. 2019. “Evaluating Off-the-Shelf NLP Tools for German.” In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2019): Long Papers, 212–22. Erlangen, Germany: German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology. https://corpora.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/data/konvens/proceedings/papers/KONVENS2019_paper_55.pdf.
Roussel, Adam. 2018. “Detecting and Resolving Shell Nouns in German.” In Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora, and Coreference (CRAC), 61–67. New Orleans, LA, USA. https://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-0707.
Roussel, Adam, Fabian Barteld, and Katrin Ortmann. 2020. “CorA-XML Utils: Processing Diplomatic Transcriptions in Historical Corpora.” Hamburg, Germany.
Roussel, Adam, Stefanie Dipper, Sarah Jablotschkin, and Heike Zinsmeister. 2018. “Towards the Automatic Resolution of Anaphora with Non-Nominal Antecedents: Insights from Annotation.” In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS). Vienna, Austria. https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/academiaecorpora/PDF/konvens18_21.pdf.
Simonjetz, Fabian, and Adam Roussel. 2016. “Crosslinguistic Annotation of German and English Shell Noun Complexes.” In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), 265–78. Bochum, Germany. https://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/konvens16/pub/34_konvensproc.pdf.