A Uniform Treatment of Pragmatic Inferences in Simple and Complex Utterances and Sequences of Utterances

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1995-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9504017v1

Computer Science

Computation and Language

7 pages, LaTeX Source. To appear in the Proceedings of ACL-95. Requires aclap.sty file

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Drawing appropriate defeasible inferences has been proven to be one of the most pervasive puzzles of natural language processing and a recurrent problem in pragmatics. This paper provides a theoretical framework, called ``stratified logic'', that can accommodate defeasible pragmatic inferences. The framework yields an algorithm that computes the conversational, conventional, scalar, clausal, and normal state implicatures; and the presuppositions that are associated with utterances. The algorithm applies equally to simple and complex utterances and sequences of utterances.

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