---
title: "Control of Inference: Role of Some Aspects of Discourse Structure-Centering"
authors:
  - "Aravind K. Joshi"
  - "Scott Weinstein"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/75"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0075.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "385-386"
track: "INFERENCE and REASONING"
keywords:
---

# Control of Inference: Role of Some Aspects of Discourse Structure-Centering

Aravind K. Joshi, Scott Weinstein

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 385-386.

## Abstract

The purpose of this communication is to examine o ne particular aspect of discourse structure, namely, a discourse construct called center of a se ntence (utterance) in discourse and~elation t o the larger issue of control of inference. We have described very briefly the notion of center(s) of a sentence in discourse and discussed how the ce ntering phenomenon might be incorporated in a formal model of inference and its relation to the intrinsic complexity of certain inferences.