Coherence and Interpretation in English Texts
Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 110-115.
Abstract
A theory and system are described for the semantic analysis of complex, coherent English texts. The principal question addressed in this paper is how the meanings of the smaller elements of language compose into the meanings of larger stretches of text. Within sentence boundaries, this is achieved by an operation, called predicate interpretation, which provides a mechanism for general words, especially those having a spatial flavor, to acquire specific interpretations in context. Beyond sentence boundaries it is achieved by an operation which matches successive sentences against a small number of common patterns and builds up a tree-like structure representing the text's patterns of coherence.
@inproceedings{ijcai1977p21,
title = {Coherence and Interpretation in English Texts},
author = {Hobbs, Jerry R.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-77}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Raj Reddy},
pages = {110--115},
year = {1977},
note = {Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/21},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Coherence and Interpretation in English Texts AU - Hobbs, Jerry R. T2 - Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-77 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1977 SP - 110 EP - 115 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/21 ER -Copied
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