Computing parallelism in discourse

Kohlhase M, Gardent C (1997)


Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article

Publication year: 1997

Journal

Pages Range: 1016-1021

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

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.

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APA:

Kohlhase, M., & Gardent, C. (1997). Computing parallelism in discourse. In Martha E. Pollack (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (pp. 1016-1021).

MLA:

Kohlhase, Michael, and Claire Gardent. "Computing parallelism in discourse." Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Ed. Martha E. Pollack, 1997. 1016-1021.

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