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"abstract": "The way in which discourse features express connections back to the previous discourse has been described in the literature in terms of adjoining at the right frontier of discourse structure. But this does not allow for discourse features that express ezpectations about what is to come in the subsequent discourse. After characterizing these expectations and their distribution in text, we show how an approach that makes use of substitution as well as adjoining on a suitably defined right frontier, can be used to both process expectations and constrain discouse processing in general.",
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"text": "The way in which discourse features express connections back to the previous discourse has been described in the literature in terms of adjoining at the right frontier of discourse structure. But this does not allow for discourse features that express ezpectations about what is to come in the subsequent discourse. After characterizing these expectations and their distribution in text, we show how an approach that makes use of substitution as well as adjoining on a suitably defined right frontier, can be used to both process expectations and constrain discouse processing in general.",
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"text": "Discourse processing subsumes several distinguishable but interlinked processes. These include reference and ellipsis resolution, inference (e.g., inferential processes associated with focus particles such as, in English, \"even\" and \"only\"), and identification of those structures underlying a discourse that are associated with coherence relations between its units. In the course of developing an incremental approach to the latter, we noticed a variety of constructions in discourse that raise expectations about its future structural features. We found that we could represent such expectations by adopting a lexical variant of TAG -LTAG (Schabes, 1990) -and using its substitution operation as a complement to adjoining. Perhaps more interesting was that these expectations appeared to constrain the subsequent discourse until they were resolved. This we found we could model in terms of constraints on adjoining and substitution with respect to a suitably defined Right Frontier. This short paper focuesses on the phenomenon of these expectations in discourse and their expression in a discourse-level LTAG. We conelude the paper with some thoughts on incremental discourse processing in light of these expectations.",
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"text": "The following examples illustrate the creation of expectations through discourse markers:",
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"text": "a. On the one hand, John is very generous. b. On the other, he is extremely difficult to find.",
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"text": "Example 3 a. On the one hand, John is very generous. b. For example, suppose you needed some money. c. You would just have to ask him for it. b. On the other hand, he is very difficult to find.",
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"text": "Example 1 illustrates the expectation that, following a clause marked \"on the one hand\", the discourse will express a constrasting situation (here marked by \"on the other\"). Examples 2 and 3 illustrate that such an expectation need not be satisfied immediately by the next clause: In Example 2, clause (b) partially resolves the expectation set up in (a), but introduces an expectation that the subsequent discourse will indicate what happens in such cases. That expectation is then resolved in clause (c). In Example 3, the next two clauses do nothing to satisfy the expectation raised in clause (a): rather, they give evidence for the claim made in (a). The expectation raised in (a) is not resolved until clause (d).",
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"text": "These examples show expectations raised by sentential adverbs and the imperative use of the verb \"suppose\".",
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"text": "Subordinate conjunctions (e.g., \"just as\", \"although\", \"when\", etc.) can lead to similar expectations when they appear in a preposed subordinate clause -eg.",
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"text": "Example 4 a. Although John is very generous, b. if you should need some money, c. you'd see that he's difficult to find.",
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"text": "As in Example 2, clause 4(a) raises the expectation of learning what is nevertheless the case. Clause 4(b) partially satisfies that expectation by raising a hy-pothetical situation, along with the expectation of learning what is true in such a situation. This latter expectation is then satisfied in clause 4(c).",
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"text": "In summary, these expectations can be characterized as follows: (1) once raised, an expectation must be resolved, but its resolvant can be a clause that raises its own expectations; (2) a clause raising an expectation can itelf be elaborated before that expectation is resolved, including elaboration by clauses that raise their own expectations; and (3) the most deeply \"embedded\" expectations must always be resolved first. Now these are very likely not the only kinds of expectations to be found in discourse: Whenever events or behavior follow fairly regular patterns over time, observers develop expectations about what will come next or at least eventually. For example, a dialogue model may embody the expectation that a suggestion made by one dialogue participant would eventually be followed by an explicit or implicit rejection, acceptance or tabling by the other. Other dialogue actions such as clarifications or justifications may intervene, but there is a sense of an expectation being resolved when the suggestion is responded to.",
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"text": "Here we are focussed on discourse at the level of individual monologue or turn within a larger discourse: what we show is that discourse manifests certain forward-looking patterns that have similar constraints to those of sentence-level syntax and can be handled by similar means. One possible reason that these particualr kinds of expressions may not have been noticed before is that in non-incremental approaches to discourse processing (Mann and Thompson, 1988; Marcu, 1996) , they don't stand out as obviously different.",
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"text": "The labels for discourse coherence relations used here are similar to those of RST (Mann and Thompson, 1988 ), but for simplicity, are treated as binary. Since any multi-branching tree can be converted to a binary tree, no representational power is lost. In doing this, we follow several recent converging computational approaches to discourse analysis, which are also couched in binary terms (Gardent, 1997; Marcu, 1996; Polanyi and van den Berg, 1996; Schilder, 1997; van den Berg, 1996) .",
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"text": "Implicit in our discussion is the view that in processing a discourse incrementally, its semantics and pragmatics are computed compositionally from the structure reflected in the coherence relations between its units. In the figures presented here, non-terminal nodes in a discourse structure are labelled with coherence relations merely to indicate the functions that project appropriate content, beliefs and other side effects into the recipient's discourse model. This view is, we believe, consistent with the more detailed formal interfaces to discourse semantics/pragmatics presented in (Gardent, 1997; Schilder, 1997; van den Berg, 1996) , and also allows for multiple discourse relations (intentional and in-formational) to hold between discourse units (Moore and Pollack, 1992; Moser and Moore, 1995; Moser and Moore, 1996) and contribute to the semantic/pragmatics effects on the recipient's discourse model.",
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"text": "The examples given in the Introduction were all \"minimal pairs\" created to illustrate the relevant phenomenon as succinctly as possible. Empirical questions thus include: (1) the range of lexicosyntactic constructions that raise expectations with the specific properties mentioned above;",
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"text": "(3) the frequency with which expectations are satisfied immediately, as opposed to being delayed by material that elaborates the unit raising the expectation; (4) the frequency of embedded expectations; and (5) features that provide evidence for an expectation being satisfied. While we do not have answers to all these questions, a very preliminary analysis of the Brown Corpus, a corpus of approximately 1600 email messages, and a short Romanian text by T. Vianu (approx. 5000 words) has yielded some interesting results.",
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"text": "First, reviewing the 270 constructions that Knott has identified as potential cue phrases in the Brown Corpus 1, one finds 15 adverbial phrases (such as \"initially\", \"at first\", \"to start with\", etc.) whose presence in a clause would lead to an expectation being raised. All left-extraposed clauses in English raise expectations (as in Example 4) so all the subordinate conjunctions in Knott's list would be included as well. Outside of cue phrases, we have identified imperative forms of \"suppose\" and \"consider\" as raising expectations, but currently lack a more systematic procedure for identifying expectationraising constructions in text than hand-combing text for them.",
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"text": "With respect to how often expectation-raising constructions appear in text, we have Brown Corpus data on two specific types -imperative \"suppose\" and adverbial \"on the one hand\" -as well as a detailed analysis of the Romanian text by Vianu mentioned earlier.",
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"text": "There are approximately 54K sentences in the Brown Corpus. Of these, 37 contain imperative \"suppose\" or \"let us suppose\". Twelve of these correspond to \"what if\" questions or negotiation moves which do not raise expectations:",
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"text": "Suppose -just suppose this guy was really what he said he was! A retired professional killer If he was just a nut, no harm was done. But if he was the real thing, he could do something about Lolly. (c123)",
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"text": "1 Personal communication, but also see (Knott, 1996) Alec leaned on the desk, holding the clerk's eyes with his. \"Suppose you tell me the real reason\", he drawled. \"There might be a story in it\". c121The remaining 25 sentences constitute only about 0.05% of the Brown Corpus. Of these, 22 have their expectations satisfied immediately (88%) -for example, Suppose John Jones, who, for 1960, filed on the basis of a calendar year, died June 20, 1961. His return for the period January 1 to June 20, 1961, is due April 16, 1962.",
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"text": "One is followed by a single sentence elaborating the original supposition (also flagged by \"suppose\") -\"Suppose it was not us that killed these aliens. Suppose it is something right on the planet, native to it. I just hope it doesn't work on Earthmen too. These critters went real sudden\". (cmO~)",
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"text": "while the remaining two contain multi-sentence elaborations of the original supposition. None of the examples in the Brown Corpus contains an embedded expectation.",
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"text": "The adverbial \"on the one hand\" is used to pose a contrast either phrasally -Both plans also prohibited common directors, officers, or employees between Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, on the one hand, and General Motors on the other.",
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"text": "You couldn't on the one hand decry the arts and at the same time practice them, could you? (ck08) or clausally. It is only the latter that are of interest from the point of discourse expectations.",
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"text": "The Brown Corpus contains only 7 examples of adverbial \"on the one hand\". In three cases, the expectation is satisfied immediately by a clause cued by \"but\" or \"or\" -e.g.",
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"text": "On the one hand, the Public Health Service declared as recently as October 26 that present radiation levels resulting from the Soviet shots \"do not warrant undue public concern\" or any action to limit the intake of radioactive substances by individuals or large population groups anywhere in the Aj. But the PHS conceded that the new radioactive particles \"will add to the risk of genetic effects in succeeding generations, and possibly to the risk of health damage to some people in the United States\".(cb21)",
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"text": "In the remaining four cases, satisfaction of the expectation (the \"target\" contrast item) is delayed by 2-3 sentences elaborating the \"source\" contrast item --e.g. Brooklyn College students have an ambivalent attitude toward their school. On the one hand, there is a sense of not having moved beyond the ambiance of their high school. This is particularly acute for those who attended Midwood High School directly across the street from Brooklyn College. They have a sense of marginality at being denied that special badge of status, the out-of-town school. At the same time, there is a good deal of self-congratulation at attending a good college . .. cf25In these cases, the target contrast item is cued by \"on the other hand\" in three cases and \"at the same time\" in the case given above. Again, none of the examples contains an embedded expectation.",
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"text": "(The much smaller email corpus contained six examples of clausal \"on the one hand\", with the target contrast cued by \"on the other hand\",\"on the other\" or \"at the other extreme\". In one case, there was no explicit target contrast and the expectation raised by \"on the one hand\" was never satisfied. We will continue to monitor for such examples.)",
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"text": "Before concluding with a close analysis of the Romanian text, we should note that in both the Brown Corpus and the email corpus, clausal adverbial \"on the other hand\" occurs more frequently without an expectation-raising \"on the one hand\" than it does with one. (Our attention was called to this by a frequency analysis of potential cue phrase instances in the Brown Corpus compiled for us by Alistair Knott and Andrei Mikheev, HCRC, University of Edinburgh.) We found 53 instances of clausal \"on the other hand\" occuring without an explicit source contrast cued earlier. Although one can only speculate now on the reason for this phenomenon, it does make a difference to incremental analysis, as we try to show in Section 3.3.",
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"text": "The Romanian text that has been closely analysed for explicit expectation-raising constructions is T. Vianu's Aesthetics. It contains 5160 words and 382 discourse units (primarily clauses). Counting preposed gerunds as raising expectations as well as counting the constructions noted previously, 39 instances of expectation-raising discourse units were identified (10.2%). In 11 of these cases, 1-16 discourse units intervened before the raised expectation was satisfied. One example follows:",
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"text": "Support for this work has come from the Department of Computer Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia), the Department of Computer Science, University \"A.I.Cuza\" (Iasi, Romania) and the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) under grant N6600194C6-043 and the Army Research Organization (ARO) under grant DAAHO494GO426. Thanks go to both the anonymous reviewers and the following colleagues for their helpful comments: Michael Collins, Claire Gardent, Udo Hahn, Joseph Rosenzweig, Donia Scott, Mark Steedman, Matthew Stone, Michael Strube, and Michael Zock. Thanks also to Alistair Knott and Andrei Mikheev for giving us a rough count of cue phrases in the Brown Corpus.",
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