Sara Shahmohammadi


2024

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Discourse Parsing for German with new RST Corpora
Sara Shahmohammadi | Manfred Stede
Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)

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Discourse-Level Features in Spoken and Written Communication
Hannah J. Seemann | Sara Shahmohammadi | Manfred Stede | Tatjana Scheffler
Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)

2023

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Encoding Discourse Structure: Comparison of RST and QUD
Sara Shahmohammadi | Hannah Seemann | Manfred Stede | Tatjana Scheffler
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI 2023)

We present a quantitative and qualitative comparison of the discourse trees defined by the Rhetorical Structure Theory and Questions under Discussion models. Based on an empirical analysis of parallel annotations for 28 texts (blog posts and podcast transcripts), we conclude that both discourse frameworks capture similar structural information. The qualitative analysis shows that while complex discourse units often match between analyses, QUD structures do not indicate the centrality of segments.