Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints

dc.creatorPassonneau, Rebecca J.
dc.date1995-05-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:09:52Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:09:52Z
dc.descriptionThis 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.
dc.description7 pages. Self-contained latex source. Uses ijcai95.sty and named.bst. To appear in IJCAI 1995
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9505036
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9505036
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151191
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleIntegrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints
dc.typetext

Files

Collections