Anton Benz


2022

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Testing Focus and Non-at-issue Frameworks with a Question-under-Discussion-Annotated Corpus
Christoph Hesse | Maurice Langner | Ralf Klabunde | Anton Benz
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

We present an annotated corpus of German driving reports for the analysis of Question-under-Discussion (QUD) based information structural distinctions. Since QUDs can hardly be defined in advance for providing a corresponding tagset, several theoretical issues arise concerning the scope and quality of the corpus and the development of an appropriate annotation tool for creating the corpus. We developed the corpus for testing the adequacy of QUD-based pragmatic frameworks of information structure. First analyses of the annotated information structures show that focus-related meaning aspects are essentially confirmed, indicating a sufficent accuracy of the annotations. Assumptions on non-at-issueness expressed by non-restrictive relative clauses made in the literature seem to be too strong, given the corpus data.

2020

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Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning
Christoph Hesse | Maurice Langner | Anton Benz | Ralf Klabunde
Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning

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Annotating QUDs for generating pragmatically rich texts
Christoph Hesse | Anton Benz | Maurice Langner | Felix Theodor | Ralf Klabunde
Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Theories for Text Planning

2015

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A Strategic Reasoning Model for Generating Alternative Answers
Jon Stevens | Anton Benz | Sebastian Reuße | Ralf Klabunde
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)