Computing Parallelism in Discourse
cmp-lg
2008-02-03 v1 计算与语言
摘要
Although much has been said about parallelism in discourse, a formal, computational theory of parallelism structure is still outstanding. In this paper, we present a theory which given two parallel utterances predicts which are the parallel elements. The theory consists of a sorted, higher-order abductive calculus and we show that it reconciles the insights of discourse theories of parallelism with those of Higher-Order Unification approaches to discourse semantics, thereby providing a natural framework in which to capture the effect of parallelism on discourse semantics.
引用
@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9705004,
title = {Computing Parallelism in Discourse},
author = {Claire Gardent and Michael Kohlhase},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9705004},
year = {2008}
}
备注
6 pages