The SENSEI Discourse Analysis Tools

In this deliverable we present the progress on the discourse analysis methods developed within the project in Period 2. We continued the lines of work pursued during Period 1 of the project on discourse parsing of spoken conversations, on extracting event structure and temporal expressions and on inter- and intra-document coreference in social media, and in addition to these we pursued a new line of work on argumentation structure of conversations planned for Period 2. The document is organised as follows: in Section §2, progress on discourse parsing for conversations is presented. Next, work on event extraction and temporal structure from conversation is discussed (§3). Then, progress on intra- and inter-document coreference resolution for conversations in social media is described (Sections §4 and §5) followed by a description of the work on argument structure (§6). Finally, conclusions and future plans are drawn.