A Formal Approach To Discourse Anaphora

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A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora

Author : Bonnie Lynn Webber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315403323
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora written by Bonnie Lynn Webber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, this book starts from the perspective that dealing with anaphoric language can be decomposed into two complementary tasks: 1. identifying what a text potentially makes available for anaphoric reference and 2. constraining the candidate set of a given anaphoric expression down to one possible choice. The author argues there is an intimate connection between formal sentential analysis and the synthesis of an appropriate conceptual model of the discourse. Some of the issues with the creation of this conceptual model are discussed in the second chapter, which follows a background to the thesis that catalogues the types of anaphoric expression available in English and lists the types of things that can be referred to anaphorically. The third and fourth chapters examine two types of anaphoric expression that do not refer to non-linguistic entities. The final chapter details three areas into which this research could potentially be extended. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora

Author : Bonnie Lynn Webber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora written by Bonnie Lynn Webber and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extended natural language communication between a person engaged in solving a problem or seeking information and a machine providing assistance requires the machine to be able to deal with anaphoric language in a perspicuous, transportable non-ad hoc way. This report takes the view that dealing with anaphoric language can be decomposed into two complementary tasks: (1) identifying what a text potentially makes available for anaphoric reference; and (2) constraining the candidate set of a given anaphoric expression down to one possible choice. The second task has been called the 'Anaphor resolution' problem and, to date, has stimulated much research in psychology and artificial intelligence natural language understanding. The focus of this report is the first task - that of identifying what a text makes available for anaphoric reference and how it does so.

A Formal Semantics for Some Discourse Anaphora

Author : Jeffrey C. King
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book A Formal Semantics for Some Discourse Anaphora written by Jeffrey C. King and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Approaches to Discourse Anaphora

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
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Download or read book Approaches to Discourse Anaphora written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anaphoric Relations in English and French

Author : Francis Cornish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317421515
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Anaphoric Relations in English and French written by Francis Cornish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interaction between grammar and discourse. Studies of anaphora taking a largely ‘textual’ approach to the subject have tended to underestimate the effect upon its formation of referential and discourse factors, while studies framed within a psycholinguistic and computational perspective have been inclined to minimise the importance of the purely linguistic features connected with anaphora. This volume places the study of anaphora upon a firmer foundation by examining both its nature and functions in discourse, by pinpointing the range of factors relevant to its operation in the two languages under study, and by attempting to relate the textual and interactional perspectives within a more comprehensive framework.

A Graph-theoretic Approach to the Semantics of Discourse and Anaphora

Author : Clive John Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (469 download)

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Book Synopsis A Graph-theoretic Approach to the Semantics of Discourse and Anaphora by : Clive John Cox

Download or read book A Graph-theoretic Approach to the Semantics of Discourse and Anaphora written by Clive John Cox and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "This thesis is concerned with the formal semantic analysis of discourse and anaphora. A formal model-theoretic semantic framework, Graph-Theoretic Semantics (GTS), is developed covering simple extensional English discourse involving singular and plural noun phrase anaphora. In opposition to previous theories of discourse anaphora, (such as Kamp's DRT or Groenendijk and Stokhof's DPL) anaphoric antecedent information is stored and manipulated within the denotational space. Graph-theoretic denotations are utilized for this purpose. Graph vertices describe individuals identified by the interpretation of a discourse. Graph edges describe constraints amongst the individuals described by the graph vertices. The GTS framework treats these denotation graphs as constraint networks in order to correctly handle the various anaphor- antecedent relations that have been proposed within the literature. The framework is best viewed as a theory of anaphoric analysis. That is, the framework determines how, in certain discourses, appropriate information for anaphoric reference can be derived and, given particular references, how appropriate interpretations can be provided. The framework does not impose a particular set of constraints on anaphoric reference. However, it does provide through the representational and denotational domains the means for providing appropriate constraints on anaphoric reference to allow for the development of particular theories of anaphoric reference. Some example theories of anaphoric reference are provided. As well as providing a formally precise semantic framework, attention has been paid to theoretical and practical computational issues. The semantic representation is described with unification feature-structures, providing a flexible, powerful and extensible representational foundation for the semantic interpretation. The construction of appropriate semantic representations from an example grammar is illustrated within the PATR unification grammar formalism. The denotational description of language as graphs which are treated as constraint networks allows the extensive research into the efficient solution of constraint satisfaction problems to be utilized. An implementation of the framework is provided."

New Approaches to Discourse Anaphora

Author : University of Lancaster. University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book New Approaches to Discourse Anaphora written by University of Lancaster. University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dynamics of Meaning

Author : Gennaro Chierchia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226104516
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Meaning written by Gennaro Chierchia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Dynamics of Meaning, Gennaro Chierchia tackles central issues in dynamic semantics and extends the general framework. Chapter 1 introduces the notion of dynamic semantics and discusses in detail the phenomena that have been used to motivate it, such as "donkey" sentences and adverbs of quantification. The second chapter explores in greater depth the interpretation of indefinites and issues related to presuppositions of uniqueness and the "E-type strategy." In Chapter 3, Chierchia extends the dynamic approach to the domain of syntactic theory, considering a range of empirical problems that includes backwards anaphora, reconstruction effects, and weak crossover. The final chapter develops the formal system of dynamic semantics to deal with central issues of definites and presupposition. Chierchia shows that an approach based on a principled enrichment of the mechanisms dealing with meaning is to be preferred on empirical grounds over approaches that depend on an enrichment of the syntactic apparatus. Dynamics of Meaning illustrates how seemingly abstract stances on the nature of meaning can have significant and far-reaching linguistic consequences, leading to the detection of new facts and influencing our understanding of the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface.

Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications

Author : António Branco
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 354071412X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications written by António Branco and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2007, held in Lagos, Portugal in March 2007. The 13 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on human processing and performance, language analysis and representation, resolution methodology and algorithms, as well as computational systems and applications.

Discourse Comprehension

Author : Charles A. Weaver, III
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136482679
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Comprehension written by Charles A. Weaver, III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is derived from presentations given at a conference hosted in Boulder, Colorado in honor of the 60th birthday of Walter Kintsch. Though the contents of the talks, and thus the chapters, varied widely, all had one thing in common -- they were inspired to some degree by the work of Walter Kintsch. When making plans for an edited book centered around this conference, the editors had a primary goal: to acknowledge the wide variety of researchers and research areas Kintsch had influenced. As a consequence, one of the more unusual elements of this volume is the diversity of the contributors. Researchers from six different countries contributed chapters to this book which is loosely organized around three main thrusts of Kintsch's work: * text-based representations that explain how meaning in a text is constructed, * situation models which represent what the text is about rather than what a text literally says, and * the construction-integration model, Kintsch's most recent work in discourse comprehension.

Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding

Author : Francis Cornish
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198700289
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding written by Francis Cornish and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This was a different man," said Mr Welbecker. "Listen! This man was called Hamlet and his uncle had killed his father because he wanted to marry his mother.""What did he want to marry his mother for?" said William. "I've never heard of anyone wanting to marry their mother."*In almost any conversation the meaning of what is said depends on the listener seeing how some words refer to what has already been said, and that others must be related to the characteristics of time, place, or person of the situation around which the conversation revolves. These modes ofreference, anaphora and deixis respectively, involve surprisingly complicated cognitive and syntactic processes, which people (normally) perform easily and unerringly. But they present formidable problems for the linguist and cognitive scientist trying to explain precisely how comprehension isachieved. Anaphora and deixis are thus a central research focus in syntactic theory, while understanding and modelling their operation in discourse are important targets in computational linguistics and cognitive science. In this ambitious work, Francis Cornish sets out an original theory ofanaphora and deixis, and proposes a new and elegant theoretical model to represent the transfer of meaning in discourse.Dr Cornish considers anaphoric reference in discourse from both psychological and linguistic perspectives. He argues that anaphora and deixis are essentially parts of integrative discourse procedures that facilitate the linking of representations held in working memory. He brings together work bylinguists, formal semanticists, psychologists, and researchers in artificial intelligence, as well as drawing on his own extensive experimental work on a variety of corpora of different genres in French and English.Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding will interest researchers and advanced students in a variety of fields within and outside linguistics, including cognitive science, artificial intelligence, syntactic theory, formal semantics, and the analysis of discourse.[* from William - The Pirate by Richmal Crompton, London, Macmillan, 1932]

Approaches to Discourse Anaphora

Author : Simon Botley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862200128
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Discourse Anaphora written by Simon Botley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Karen Van Hoek
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289492
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics by : Karen Van Hoek

Download or read book Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics written by Karen Van Hoek and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference within the area of discourse analysis. The topics addressed include pronominal anaphora in English and Russian narratives, the subtleties of the definite article in English and Spanish, the use of discourse particles in Dutch, and the function of prosody as a marker of text structure in spoken narratives. The papers illustrate the potential of the emerging cognitive linguistic paradigm to provide fresh, revealing insights in the study of discourse.

Handbook of Natural Language Processing

Author : Robert Dale
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0824746341
Total Pages : 1015 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Natural Language Processing written by Robert Dale and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-07-25 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the design and application of natural language text-based processing systems, based on generative linguistics, empirical copus analysis, and artificial neural networks. It emphasizes the practical tools to accommodate the selected system.

The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns

Author : Laure Gardelle
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267839
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns by : Laure Gardelle

Download or read book The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns written by Laure Gardelle and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns. Whereas personal pronouns used to have a reputation of poor substitutes for full NP’s, recent research shows that personal pronouns are a fundamental, if not universal, category, whose pragmatics is central to their understanding. For instance, personal pronouns may indicate attentional continuity or social deixis, and take on genre-specific pragmatic effects. The authors of the present collection investigate such effects and analyse competing forms in context (e.g. she / her in subject position), as well as their pragmatic functions in an extensive range of genres such as advertising, TV series, charity appeals, mother/child interaction or computer-mediated communication. Moreover, one section is devoted to the pragmatics of antecedentless pronouns and so-called ‘impersonal’ personal forms. The volume will be of interest to both scholars and students interested in the pragmatics of functional words.

Focus and Coherence in Discourse Processing

Author : Gert Rickheit
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110808412
Total Pages : 317 pages
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Book Synopsis Focus and Coherence in Discourse Processing by : Gert Rickheit

Download or read book Focus and Coherence in Discourse Processing written by Gert Rickheit and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora

Author : Simon Philip Botley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027298904
Total Pages : 266 pages
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Download or read book Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora written by Simon Philip Botley and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse anaphora is a challenging linguistic phenomenon that has given rise to research in fields as diverse as linguistics, computational linguistics and cognitive science. Because of the diversity of approaches these fields bring to the anaphora problem, the editors of this volume argue that there needs to be a synthesis, or at least a principled attempt to draw the differing strands of anaphora research together. The selected papers in this volume all contribute to the aim of synthesis and were selected to represent the growing importance of corpus-based and computational approaches to anaphora description, and to developing natural language systems for resolving anaphora in natural language.