Towards automatically generating Questions under Discussion to link information and discourse structure (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Questions under Discussion (QUD) are emerging as a useful approach to spelling out the connection between information structure of sentences and nature of discourse. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for QUD annotation based on explicit pragmatic principles . they propose generating all potentially relevant questions for a given sentence . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework supports more reliable discourse structure annotation based on explicit questions . but the proposed approach is not robust enough for authentic data . |
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