Proceedings of the 8th MAD Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac, Julie Lemarié, Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley, Marianne Vergez-Couret To cite this version: Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac, Julie Lemarié, Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley, Marianne Vergez-Couret. Proceedings of the 8th MAD Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation. Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac; Julie Lemarié; Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley; Marianne Vergez-Couret. MAD Multidisciplinary Perspec- tives on Signalling Text Organisation, Mar 2010, Moissac, France. 2010. hal-01391515 HAL Id: hal-01391515 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01391515 Submitted on 7 Nov 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial| 4.0 International License THE CLLE INSTITUTE (UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE) PRESENTS Proceedings of the 8th MAD Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation MARCH 17-20, 2010, MOISSAC, FRANCE Editors: Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac, Julie Lemarié, Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley, Marianne Vergez-Couret CLLE, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail Contents 1 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation 3 1.1 Call for Papers . .3 1.2 Keynote speakers . .4 1.3 Organising Committee . .4 1.4 Scientific Committee . .5 1.5 Acknowledgements . .5 2 MAD2010 - Papers 7 Wednesday, March 17 .................................8 Is the signalling of text organisation a transmodal phenomenon? (J. Bateman) .8 Thursday, March 18 .................................. 12 09:15 Towards a pattern language approach to document description (R. Waller and J. Delin) . 12 09:55 Spatial Coding and information retrieval in multimodal documents (C. Vandi and T. Baccino) . 24 10:50 Text signals in the aircraft maintenance documentation (H. Zafiharimalala and A. Tricot) . 34 11:30 Natural Language Processing tools applied to Accident Incident Report- ing Systems (E Hermann and C. Pimm) . 45 14:00 A framework for corpus-based analysis of the graphic signalling of dis- course structure (M. Thomas, J. Delin and R. Waller) . 46 14:40 Analysis of Textual Data, some topological methods for studying text structure indicators: the case of Latin historic narratives (D. Longrée and S. Mellet) . 58 15:20 Signalling Elaboration: Combining Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cues (C. Adam and M. Vergez-Couret) . 70 16:20 Signalling genre through Theme: The case of news reports and commen- taries (J. Lavid, J. Arús and L. Moratón) . 82 1 CONTENTS CONTENTS 17:00 On the signalling of multi-level discourse structures (L.-M. Ho-Dac, C. Fabre, M.-P. Péry-Woodley and J. Rebeyrolle) . 94 17:40 Lexico-grammatical Discourse Features of Interdisciplinary and Inter- professional Co-operation (D. Oakey and P. Mathias) . 106 Friday, March 19 .................................... 114 09:15 LEXCONN: A French Lexicon of Discourse Connectives (C. Roze, L. Danlos and P. Muller) . 114 09:55 Text Organization: Identifying and Measuring the Strength of Arguments in Procedural Texts (L. Fontan and P. Saint-Dizier) . 126 10:50 Realm Traversal In Biological Discourse: From Model To Experiment and back again (A. de Waard) . 136 11:30 Effects on Text Processing of Signaling Text Organization (R. F. Lorch) . 146 14:00 0... Second... Finally... Marking and unmarking of items in sequential text organisation (V. Laippala) . 152 14:40 Role of lexico-syntactic and prosodic cues in spoken comprehension of enumerations in sighted and blind adults (S. Giraud and P. Thérouanne) 164 Saturday, March 20 . 174 09:15 Comparing because to want; How connectives affect the processing of causal relations (A. Canestrelli, T. Sander and P. Mak) . 174 09:55 Syntactic form at play with discourse relations (B. Behrens, K. Solfjeld and C. Fabricius-Hansen) . 184 10:50 Cohesive Links with Literal and Idiomatic Expressions in Discourse: An Empirical and Computational Study (C. Sporleder, L. Li and A. Palmer) 194 Index of papers . 205 List of Participants . 206 3 NoteBook 208 1 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2010 is the eighth in a series of small-scale, high- quality workshops that have been organised (approx.) every second year since 1995. Its aim is to bring together researchers from different disciplines (linguistics, computational linguistics, psy- cholinguistics, educational and cognitive psychology, ergonomics and document design, semi- otics, information and communication sciences, typography, etc.) to exchange information and learn from each other on a common topic of investigation. 1.1 Call for Papers Signalling text organisation refers to the observation that within texts, certain features or el- ements seem to have a special instructional role with regard to text organisation. These text organisation signalling devices have been described under a variety of names: signals, structure indicators, advance organisers, discourse markers, layout properties, surface structure fea- tures, organisational cues, stylistic writing devices and so on. Their scope ranges from a very local level to a more global one. Their nature is also very diverse: linguistic: words (e.g. connectives), phrases (e.g. emphasis phrases), sentences (meta- • discourse sentences) and beyond (overviews, summaries); graphic: typographical and spatial variation (e.g. paragraph breaks, boldface); • hybrid (e.g. enumerations, headings, tables of contents, links and pop-up windows in • electronic documents); more elusively: first mention, length or repetition of particular text units, structural paral- • lelism. Different disciplines have taken an interest in these devices, either as a core object of study or as an element to be taken into account. As a consequence, research concerned with the signalling of text organisation is far from constituting a unified field. The notion of signal itself may be associated with different key concepts according to discipline and models: document structure, discourse organisation, layout structure, text architecture, etc. As far as function is concerned, they may be seen as discourse construction devices, traces of metalinguistic segments, as read- ing or processing instructions, as traces of the writer’s cognitive processes, or as cues revealing the author’s intentions, etc. 3 CHAPTER 1. MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON SIGNALLING TEXT ORGANISATION Since the 1970’s, research into the signalling of text organisation has produced considerable results. The environment for this research is at present undergoing a twofold transformation: firstly, new methods are appearing, linked to technological advances (corpus linguistics, natural language processing, eye movement recording techniques for the analysis of cognitive pro- cesses during reading, etc.); secondly, new fields of application are opening (in connection with the expanding use of digital documents in the professional and educational worlds). In this new context, novel research questions open up, requiring the integration of contributions from dif- ferent disciplines or fields of study. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines interested in the signalling of text organisation (e.g., linguists, computational linguists, psycholinguists, educational/cognitive psychologists, ergonomists, document designers, semioticians, informa- tion scientists, etc.) to allow exchanges, interactions and cross-fertilization. We invite contributions on topics and questions such as the following (the list may be extended): What are text signals and what role do they play? • – reader’s viewpoint – writer’s viewpoint – analyst’s viewpoint What may be relevant theoretical models and methods of data collection and analysis to • study the signalling of text organisation and its cognitive effects? – naturalist approaches and corpus studies – empirical approaches – micro vs. macro approaches – inter- and pluridisciplinary approaches Text signals and literacy • Text signals in document design, natural language processing and language technologies • We welcome different types of contributions: literature reviews, theoretical and methodological considerations, reports of empirical data, corpus based-studies, etc. 1.2 Keynote speakers John Bateman University of Bremen, Germany Eric Hermann and Christophe Pimm CFH, Conseil en Facteurs Humains, Grenoble, France Robert F. Lorch University of Kentucky, USA 1.3 Organising Committee Franck Amadieu, CLLE, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail Anne Le Draoulec, CLLE, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail CHAPTER 1. MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON SIGNALLING TEXT ORGANISATION Karine Duvignau, CLLE, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac, VALIBEL, Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) Julie Lemarié, CLLE, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley, CLLE, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail Marianne Vergez-Couret, CLLE, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail 1.4 Scientific Committee Franck Amadieu, CLLE, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France Thierry Baccino, LUTIN, University of Nice-Sophia