Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints
Abstract
This 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.
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@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9505036,
title = {Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints},
author = {Rebecca J. Passonneau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9505036},
year = {2008}
}
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7 pages. Self-contained latex source. Uses ijcai95.sty and named.bst. To appear in IJCAI 1995