Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 1267-1274.
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 & 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 a/., 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.
@inproceedings{ijcai1995p163,
title = {Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints},
author = {Passonneau, Rebecca J.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-95}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Chris S. Mellish},
pages = {1267--1274},
year = {1995},
note = {Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/163},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints AU - Passonneau, Rebecca J. T2 - Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-95 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1995 SP - 1267 EP - 1274 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/163 ER -Copied
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