Bridging as Coercive Accommodation
cmp-lg
2008-02-03 v1 Computation and Language
Abstract
In this paper we discuss the notion of "bridging" in Discourse Representation Theory as a tool to account for discourse referents that have only been established implicitly, through the lexical semantics of other referents. In doing so, we use ideas from Generative Lexicon theory, to introduce antecedents for anaphoric expressions that cannot be "linked" to a proper antecedent, but that do not need to be "accommodated" because they have some connection to the network of discourse referents that is already established.
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@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9508001,
title = {Bridging as Coercive Accommodation},
author = {Johan Bos and Paul Buitelaar and Anne-Marie Mineur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9508001},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
LaTeX file, 16 pages, uses named.sty. Paper presented at CLNLP workshop, Edinburgh, April 3-5, 1995