Multiple Discourse Relations on the Sentential Level in Japanese

Details Multiple Discourse Relations on the Sentential Level in Japanese Multiple Discourse Relations on the Sentential Level in Japanese

1996-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9607033v1

Proceedings of COLING '96

Computer Science

Computation and Language

6 pages, Postscript

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In the German government (BMBF) funded project Verbmobil, a semantic formalism Language for Underspecified Discourse Representation Structures (LUD) is used which describes several DRSs and allows for underspecification. Dealing with Japanese poses challenging problems. In this paper, a treatment of multiple discourse relation constructions on the sentential level is shown, which are common in Japanese but cause a problem for the formalism,. The problem is to distinguish discourse relations which take the widest scope compared with other scope-taking elements on the one hand and to have them underspecified among each other on the other hand. We also state a semantic constraint on the resolution of multiple discourse relations which seems to prevail over the syntactic c-command constraint.

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