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title: "Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints"
authors:
  - "Rebecca J. Passonneau"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/163"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0163.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1995
pages: "1267-1274"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
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# Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints

Rebecca J. Passonneau

*Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, 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.