Pragmatic Analysis and Discourse

After the discussion of semantic meaning and analysis, this chapter explores pragmatic analysis in linguistics and discourse phenomena. It also studies coherence and coreference as the key components of pragmatics and discourse critical to NLP, followed by discourse segmentation with different algorithms on Co-reference Resolution including Hobbs Algorithm, Centering Algorithm, Log-Linear Model, the latest machine learning methods, and evaluation schemes. This chapter also serves as the conceptual basis for Workshop#5: Sentiment Analysis and Text Classification in Chap. 14 .