Discourse and dialogue modelling
Discourse and dialogue interpretation, automatic annotation/parsing/segmentation, discourse and lexical information.- Gravellier, L., Hunter, J., Muller, P., Pellegrini, T., and Ferrané, I. Weakly supervised discourse segmentation for multiparty oral conversations. EMNLP 2021
- Morey, M., Muller, P., and Asher, N. A dependency perspective on RST discourse parsing and evaluation. Computational Linguistics 44, 2 (2018), 197-235.
- Mathieu Morey, Philippe Muller, Nicholas Asher.
How much progress have we made on RST discourse parsing? A replication study of recent results on the RST-DT
In : Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), (short paper) pp. 1330-1335, 2017. - Philippe Muller, Cécile Fabre, Clementine Adam. Predicting the relevance of distributional semantic similarity with contextual information. ACL 2014, pp 479-488.
- Juliette Conrath, Stergos Afantenos, Nicholas Asher, Philippe Muller. Unsupervised extraction of semantic relations using discourse cues. COLING 2014, pp. 2184-2194.
- Philippe Muller, Stergos Afantenos, Pascal Denis, and Nicholas Asher. Constrained decoding for text-level discourse parsing. In Proceedings of COLING 2012, pages 1883-1900, Mumbai, December 2012. [ pdf ]
- Dialogue annotation in the Stac project , more details on the project page and the publication page.
- Discourse annotation in the Annodis project, more details on the project page and the publication page.
Lexical semantics and semantic representations
Study of lexical relations, in dictionaries, distributional data or parallel corpora. Learning sentence representations- Damien Sileo, Tim Van de Cruys, Camille Pradel and Philippe Muller Mining Discourse Markers for Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning
NAACL 2019 - Vieu, L., Muller, P., Candito, M. and Djemaa, M.
A General Framework for the Annotation of Causality Based on FrameNet
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, Portorož, Slovenia, May 23-28, 2016.
See also, the French FrameNet project Asfalda -
Shafqat Virk, Philippe Muller, Juliette Conrath
A Supervised Approach for Enriching the Relational Structure of Frame Semantics in FrameNet
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Osaka, Japan, Dec 11-17, 2016. pp 3542-3552 - P. Muller and P. Langlais. Comparing distributional and mirror translation similarities for extracting synonyms. In Cory Butz and Pawan Lingras, editors, Proceedings of the 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, LNAI, St John's, Canada, pages 323-334, 2011. Springer
- Philippe Muller, Nabil Hathout, and Bruno Gaume. Synonym extraction using a semantic distance on a dictionary. In D. Boguraev and R. Mihalcea, editors, Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL workshop Textgraphs, New York, NY, 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Temporal information in natural language
Annotation of temporal information in texts: date, time, events, and relations between such entities. Cf:- Pascal Denis and Philippe Muller.
Predicting globally-coherent temporal structures via endpoint inference and graph decomposition
IJCAI 2011 - Xavier Tannier and Philippe Muller. Evaluating Temporal Graphs Built from Texts via Transitive Reduction. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, (40):375-413, 2011. [.pdf]
- Denis, P., and Muller, P. Comparison of different algebras for inducing the temporal structure of texts. In Proceedings of Coling 2010 (Beijing, 2010), pp. 250-258. [ bib | .pdf ]
- P. Muller and X. Tannier. Annotating and measuring temporal relations in texts. In Proceedings of Coling 2004, volume I, pages 50-56, Genève, 2004, Association for Computational Linguistics. [.pdf]
Resources: check the resource page
Spatial and temporal reasoning
Older Artificial Intelligence/Knowledge representation work, cf:- P. Muller Topological Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Representation. 2002. Computational Intelligence, 18(3):420-450.
- Muller, P. and V. Dugat. chapter Représentations en logique classique in "Raisonnements sur l'espace et le temps", F. Le Ber, G. Ligozat and O. Papini (eds.), Hermès, 2007.