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Anaphora and Discourse Structure

Published:2003-12 Issue:4 Volume:29 Page:545-587
ISSN:0891-2017
Container-title:Computational Linguistics
language:en
Short-container-title:Computational Linguistics

Author:

Webber Bonnie¹,Stone Matthew²,Joshi Aravind³,Knott Alistair⁴

Affiliation:

1. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW, UK.

2. Department of Computer Science, Rutgers Universtiy, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019.

3. Department of Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 200 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389.

4. Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, DUNEDIN 9015, New Zealand.

Abstract

We argue in this article that many common adverbial phrases generally taken to signal a discourse relation between syntactically connected units within discourse structure instead work anaphorically to contribute relational meaning, with only indirect dependence on discourse structure. This allows a simpler discourse structure to provide scaffolding for compositional semantics and reveals multiple ways in which the relational meaning conveyed by adverbial connectives can interact with that associated with discourse structure. We conclude by sketching out a lexicalized grammar for discourse that facilitates discourse interpretation as a product of compositional rules, anaphor resolution, and inference.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Artificial Intelligence,Computer Science Applications,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/089120103322753347

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