Limited Attention and Discourse Structure

Details Limited Attention and Discourse Structure Limited Attention and Discourse Structure

1995-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9512003v2

Computer Science

Computation and Language

9 pages, uses twoside,cl,lingmacros

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This squib examines the role of limited attention in a theory of discourse structure and proposes a model of attentional state that relates current hierarchical theories of discourse structure to empirical evidence about human discourse processing capabilities. First, I present examples that are not predicted by Grosz and Sidner's stack model of attentional state. Then I consider an alternative model of attentional state, the cache model, which accounts for the examples, and which makes particular processing predictions. Finally I suggest a number of ways that future research could distinguish the predictions of the cache model and the stack model.

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