Computing Parallelism in Discourse

Gardent, Claire; Kohlhase, Michael

Computing Parallelism in Discourse

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Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural-language Processing and Graphical Presentation. Pages 1016-1020.

Abstract

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.

Claire Gardent, and Michael Kohlhase. 1997. Computing Parallelism in Discourse. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-97. IJCAI, 1016–1020. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/147

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