Anchoring a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for Discourse

dc.creatorWebber, Bonnie Lynn
dc.creatorJoshi, Aravind K.
dc.date1998-06-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:36:17Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:36:17Z
dc.descriptionWe here explore a ``fully'' lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for discourse that takes the basic elements of a (monologic) discourse to be not simply clauses, but larger structures that are anchored on variously realized discourse cues. This link with intra-sentential grammar suggests an account for different patterns of discourse cues, while the different structures and operations suggest three separate sources for elements of discourse meaning: (1) a compositional semantics tied to the basic trees and operations; (2) a presuppositional semantics carried by cue phrases that freely adjoin to trees; and (3) general inference, that draws additional, defeasible conclusions that flesh out what is conveyed compositionally.
dc.description7 pages, uses aclcol.sty
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9806017
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9806017
dc.identifierProceedings of COLING-ACL'98 Workshop on Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers. (Reproduced with permission of the Universite de Montreal
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/15861
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleAnchoring a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for Discourse
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