Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints

Details Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints

1995-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9505036v1

Computer Science

Computation and Language

7 pages. Self-contained latex source. Uses ijcai95.sty and named.bst. To appear in IJCAI 1995

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This paper concerns how to generate and understand discourse anaphoric noun phrases. I present the results of an analysis of all discourse anaphoric noun phrases (N=1,233) in a corpus of ten narrative monologues, where the choice between a definite pronoun or phrasal NP conforms largely to Gricean constraints on informativeness. I discuss Dale and Reiter's [To appear] recent model and show how it can be augmented for understanding as well as generating the range of data presented here. I argue that integrating centering [Grosz et al., 1983] [Kameyama, 1985] with this model can be applied uniformly to discourse anaphoric pronouns and phrasal NPs. I conclude with a hypothesis for addressing the interaction between local and global discourse processing.

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