(0) Cover
(1) Plan for Today
(2) Natural Language Processing
(3) Why NLP?
(4) Example: User Interfaces
(5) Example: Question-Answering(1)
(6) Example: Information Retrieval
(7) Example: Text Generation
(8) Challenges
(9) What is Discourse
(10) Discourse Phenomena
(11) Inference in Discourse Processing
(12) Discourse Exhibits Structure!
(13) Models of Discourse Structure
(14) Example
(15) Cohesion
(16) Cohesion
(17) Rhetorical Structure Theory
(18) Rhetorical Structure Theory
(19) Text Grammars
(20) Intention-based Approaches
(21) Computational Approaches
(22) Applications
(23) Types of Discourse
(24) Does it work?
(25) Does it work?


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