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Constraints in discourse / / edited by Anton Benz, Peter Kuhnlein
Constraints in discourse / / edited by Anton Benz, Peter Kuhnlein
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2008
Descrizione fisica vi, 292 p. : ill
Disciplina 401/.41
Altri autori (Persone) BenzAnton <1965->
KuhnleinPeter
Collana Pragmatics & beyond
Soggetto topico Constraints (Linguistics)
Discourse analysis
ISBN 1-282-15210-6
9786612152108
90-272-9143-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Constraints in Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Constraints in discourse -- An introduction -- 1. General remarks -- 2. The cognitive status of rhetorical relations -- 3. Topics in the analysis of discourse constraints -- 4. The ldm -- 5. Rhetorical Structure Theory -- Graphical convention -- 6. SRDT -- 7. About the papers -- Bibliography -- Part I. The Right Frontier -- Troubles on the right frontier -- 1. Overview -- 2 .An introduction to the Right Frontier Constraint and its formalisation -- 3. An Application of the Right Frontier to Ellipsis -- 4. RFC and Definites -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- The moving right frontier -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chameleon relations in monologic discourse -- 2.1 Topic Insertion? -- 2.2 Underspecification? -- 3. Content relations and interrogatives -- 3.1 Narrationq versus Elaborationq -- 3.2 A solution using a question-answer topic -- 4. More general and methodological issues -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II. Comparing Frameworks -- Strong generative capacity of rst, sdrt and discourse dependency dagss -- 1. Introduction -- 2. RST -- 2.1 Graphical representations and predicate-argument relations -- 2.2 Nucleus/Satellite distinction -- 3. SDRD -- 3.1 Box representations and graphs for SDRSs -- 3.2 Topic nodes -- 3.3 Right Frontier Constraint -- 3.4 Subordinating conjunctions and linear order -- 3.5 Summary on rst and sdrt, discourses in the canonical order -- 4. Discourse dependency dags -- 5. Strong generative capacity -- 5.1 rst trees and their equivalents in the other representations -- 5.2 Dependency dags without any equivalent rst tree -- 5.2.1 Non tree shaped dags without any equivalent rst tree -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Rhetorical distance revisited - A parameterized approach*.
1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Theories of discourse-structural accessibility -- 2.2 RST in a nutshell -- 3. A parameterized framework for rhetorical distance -- 3.1 Trees and paths -- 3.2 Parameters -- 4. Reconstruction of the theories within the framework -- 4.1 Stack Model (GS, Grosz and Sidner 1986) -- 4.2 Veins Theory (VT, Cristea et al. 1998) -- 4.3 Rhetorical distance approach (KK, Kibrik and Krasavina 2005) -- 4.4 Theoretical issues: summary -- 5. Comparative empirical evaluation -- 5.1 Preliminaries -- 5.2 Rhetorical distance and pronominalization -- 5.3 Effects of referential distance -- 5.4 Empirical evaluation: summary and related work -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Underspecified discourse representation* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse structure -- 3. Representing discourse structure -- 3.1 Underspecified and fully specified discourse representations -- 3.2 Formal foundations of discourse representations -- 3.2.1 Arranging discourse relations in CLLS -- 3.2.2 Specifying discourse relations in an extension of CLLS -- 4. Constructing and resolving discourse constraints -- 4.1 The syntax-discourse interface -- 4.2 An extended example -- 5. Treeness of discourse structures -- 5.1 Crossed dependencies -- 5.2 Non-continuous discourse constituents -- 5.3 N-ary RST trees -- 6. Related work -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Part III. The Cognitive Perspective -- Dependency precedes independence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The interpretation of definite DPs -- 3. The processing of definite DPs -- 3.1 Previous processing evidence -- 3.2 Previous ERP findings -- 4. The present study -- 4.1 Norming study -- 4.2 ERP study2 -- 4.2.1 Method -- 4.2.2 Results: Behavioral data -- 4.2.3 Results: ERP data -- 5. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Accessing discourse referents introduced in negated phrases -- 1. Introduction.
2. Previous Study: Double Negation -- 3. Current Study: Bathroom Sentences -- 3.1 Experiment 1 -- 3.1.1 Method -- 3.1.2 Results and Discussion -- 4 Experiment 2 -- 4.1 Method -- 4.2 Results and Discussion -- 5. General Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Part IV. Language Specific Phenomena -- Complex anaphors in discourse1 -- 1. Overview -- 2. Types of and constraints on complexation processes -- 2.1 What is 'abstractness'? -- 2.2 Types of anaphoric complexation -- 2.2.1 Maintenance by neutral anaphors -- 2.2.2 Maintenance by lexical anaphors -- 2.2.3 Ontology-changing anaphors -- 2.3 Constraints on ontology changing complexation -- 3. The resolution of complex anaphors -- 3.1 Disambiguation by ontological features -- 3.2 Disambiguation by lexical features -- 3.3 Disambiguation by conceptual knowledge -- 4. Summary and outlook -- References -- The discourse functions of the present perfect -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: the semantics of the English perfect -- 3. Inference patterns needed to find the value of X in English -- 4. Discourse Functions of the English Present Perfect -- Type (i) - (iia,b) -- Type (i) -- Type (ii-a) -- Type (ii-b): Topic Negotiation QAP -- Type (iii) -- 5. The Japanese perfect -- 5.1 Summary of the Japanese -te-i-ru data -- 5.2 The discourse functions of Japanese -te-i- -- 5.3 Differences between the Japanese and English samples -- 6. Summary -- References -- German right dislocation and afterthought in discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Right dislocation vs. afterthought: formal differences -- 3. The discourse relation Afterthought -- 4. The discourse function of right dislocation -- 4.1 To the left and to the right: left dislocation, right dislocation and hanging topic -- 4.2 Right dislocation and the 'foreground' vs. 'background' distinction -- 5. Summary and conclusions -- References.
A discourse-relational approach to continuation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relevant syntactic properties -- 3. Assigning communicative weight -- 4. A discourse structural account -- 5. HPSG analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- German Vorfeld-filling as constraint -interaction* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Expectations about vorfeld-filling -- 2.1 Subject as unmarked vorfeld filler -- 2.2 English Topicalization: poset-elements -- 2.3 Topic or Theme -- 3. Types of vorfeld-fillers in German -- 3.1 Topic -- 3.2 Contrast -- 3.3 Scene-Setting -- 3.4 Problems for the subsequent analysis -- 4. The ranking of vorfeld-fillers -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Index -- The Pragmatics & -- Beyond New Series.
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Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium
Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium
Autore Kühnlein Peter; Rieser, Hannes; Zeevat, Henk
Altri autori (Persone) KühnleinPeter
RieserHannes
KuhnleinPeter
ZeevatHenk
ISBN 1-282-16095-8
9786612160950
90-272-9618-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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Perspectives on dialogue in the new millennium [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Kuhnlein, Hannes Rieser, Henk Zeevat
Perspectives on dialogue in the new millennium [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Kuhnlein, Hannes Rieser, Henk Zeevat
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2003
Descrizione fisica 395 p. : ill
Disciplina 401/.41
Altri autori (Persone) KuhnleinPeter
RieserHannes
ZeevatHenk <1952->
Collana Pragmatics & beyond
Soggetto topico Dialogue analysis
ISBN 1-282-16095-8
9786612160950
90-272-9618-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910782485203321
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2003
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Perspectives on dialogue in the new millennium / / edited by Peter Kuhnlein, Hannes Rieser, Henk Zeevat
Perspectives on dialogue in the new millennium / / edited by Peter Kuhnlein, Hannes Rieser, Henk Zeevat
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2003
Descrizione fisica 395 p. : ill
Disciplina 401/.41
Altri autori (Persone) KuhnleinPeter
RieserHannes
ZeevatHenk <1952->
Collana Pragmatics & beyond
Soggetto topico Dialogue analysis
ISBN 1-282-16095-8
9786612160950
90-272-9618-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Perspectives on dialogue in the New Millennium -- Foreword -- Imperatives in dialogue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The compositional semantics of imperatives -- 3. Going dynamic -- 4. Imperatives and rhetorical relations -- 4.1. Defeasible conditionals and metatalk relations -- 4.2. Imperative answers -- 4.3. Corrections -- 5. Some concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Integrating conversational move types in the grammar of conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Motivation for integrating CMT in grammatical analysis -- 3. Integrating CMT into a constraint-based grammar -- 3.1. Basics -- 3.2. Reprise uses and CMTs -- 4. Conclusions and future work -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- An hpsg-based representation model for illocutionary acts in crisis talk -- 1. A modified formalism -- 2. Crisis talk and application of the formalism -- 3. Conditions and rules and their relation to the hpsg-based model -- 3.1. Conditions -- 3.2. Rules -- 4. Description of the model -- 4.1. General structure -- 4.2. Particular structures of the item of type F for a directive -- 4.3. Particular structure of the item of type P -- 5. An alternative solution -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Denial and presupposition -- 1. Denials as negative assertions -- 2. Denial as corrections of contextual information -- 3. Shifting denotations -- 4. Dialogue models -- 5. Objecting to implicatures and presuppositions -- 6. Suspension by local accommodation -- 7. Two linguistic generalizations -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Between binding and accommodation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is bridging? -- 3. Approaches to bridging -- 3.1. Lexical or encyclopedic based approaches -- 3.2. Functional based approaches.
3.3. Empirical work -- 4. Spoken language corpus data -- 4.1. Multiple potential anchors for many bridging NPs available and perceived -- 4.2. Multiple links possible to the same anchor -- 4.3. Not all theoretically possible links are perceived -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Theories of presuppositions and presuppositional clitics -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1.1. Presupposition -- 1.2. Speaker's presuppositions or speaker/hearer presuppositions? -- 1.3. Compositionality -- 1.4. Presupposition projection -- 1.5. The simplest proposal -- 1.6. Gazdar's (1979) proposal -- 1.7. Chierchia & -- McConnell-Ginet (2000) -- 1.8. van der Sandt (1992) -- 1.9. Some interesting examples by van der Sandt -- Part II -- 2.1. Presuppositional clitics: The problem -- 2.2. Some further data -- 2.3. A problem -- 2.4. Semantics or pragmatics? -- 2.5. Modal subordination -- 2.6. The implicature analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Semantic meaning and four types of speech act -- 1. The general assumption of semantic meaning -- 2. Generics -- 3. Referential use and attributive use -- 4. A-type and B-type utterances -- 5. Four different speech acts in Austin (1953) -- 6. Different sentence meanings as different speech acts -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Generalised and particularised implicatures of linguistic politeness -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ambivalent vs. indirect utterances and conventionalisation of form -- 3. Calculating implicatures of politeness -- 3.1. When the speaker's utterance is indirect -- 3.2. When the speaker's utterance is ambivalent & -- not conventionalised for some use -- 3.3. When the speaker's utterance is conventionalised for some use & -- used in the context relative to which it is conventionalised.
3.4. When the speaker's utterance is conventionalised for some use and used in a context other than that relative to which it is conventionalised -- Notes -- References -- Models of intentions in language -- Particular models of intention from Gibbs -- A single adequate model of intention in language -- A set of attributes of intentions -- A note about persistent intentions -- Intentions in philosophy and linguistics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Context-dependent interpretation and implicit dialogue acts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Information states and update scenarios -- 3. Incremental updates and context accommodation -- 4. Formalising the update model -- 5. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Notes on analysing context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Problems in analysing context -- 2.1. Context of text -- 2.2. Context of situation -- 2.3. Summary -- 3. An approach to analyzing context -- 3.1. Displays of understanding -- 3.2. Deviant case analysis -- 3.3. Controlling the situation -- 3.4. Availability of further resources -- 4. Example analysis: Instantiating Clark's typology of common ground -- 4.1. Data -- 4.2. Types of common ground attended to in the data -- 5. Conclusions and prospects -- Notes -- References -- A basic system for multimodal robot instruction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Human-humanoid interaction -- 3. Scenario for practical evaluation -- 4. Dialogue control in action -- 4.1. Experimental setup -- 4.2. Sample dialogue and results -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- An information state approach in a multi-modal dialogue system for human-robot conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialogues with mobile robots -- 3. Dialogue processing -- 3.1. Interpretation and generation -- 4. Information states -- 4.1. Processing -- 4.2. Example dialogue rules -- 5. Summary -- 6. Recent and future work -- Notes -- References.
Dialogue understanding in dynamic domains -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Automata based approaches -- 1.2. Detailed approaches on discourse analysis -- 1.3. Scope of this paper -- 1.4. System architecture -- 1.5. An example dialogue -- 2. Modelling the application domain -- 2.1. Deriving domain models from interface definitions -- 2.2. Intension -- 2.3. Extension -- 3. Modelling the beliefs of dialogue participants -- 3.1. Belief structures -- 3.2. Aligning the belief structures -- 3.3. Deriving intentions and linguistic means of communication from belief structures -- 4. Integration of discourse and application -- 4.1. Computing coherence and discourse relations between utterances -- 4.2. Incorporating pragmatic actions into discourse structure -- 5. Updating belief structures -- 5.1. Conditions for grounding utterances -- 5.2. Operations on belief updates -- 6. Continuation of incoherent dialogues -- 7. Conclusions -- 7.1. Comparison to static approaches on dialogue -- 7.2. Rational interaction -- Notes -- References -- An information state update approach to collaborative negotiation -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The concept of negotiation -- 2. Sidner's artificial negotiation language -- 2.1. Negotiation language constructs -- 2.2. Application of Sidner's theory to real dialogue -- 2.3. Three problematic issues in Sidner's approach -- 3. Analysing Sidner's language using the information state update approach -- 3.1. The GoDiS information state -- 3.2. Conditions & -- effects and optimism & -- pessimism in GoDiS -- 3.3. Negotiation of alternatives in GoDiS -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Resolving Underspecification using Discourse Information -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Background -- 2.1. SDRT -- 2.2. Approximation -- 3. The system -- 3.1. Overview -- 3.2. Highlights of a few worked examples -- 4. Related work -- 5. Conclusion.
Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- On coordinating interpretations - optimality and rational interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bi-OT on coordination -- 3. Interpretation and accommodation -- 4. Dialogues as multi-agent systems and joint projects -- 5. Coordination of interpretation -- The interpretation level -- The update level -- Pragmatic constraints -- Mattausch's Example reconsidered -- 6. Bi-OT reconsidered -- 7. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Modal particles and the common ground -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The basic meaning of ja, doch, eben/halt and auch -- 2.1. ja -- 2.2. doch -- 2.3. eben, halt -- 2.4. auch -- 3. Interaction with context -- 3.1. Modal particles and speech acts -- 3.2. Modal particles and discourse functions -- 4. Summary and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- (Non-)Temporal concepts conveyed by before, after, and then in dialogue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formal analyses for before, after, and then -- 2.1. Unrestricted temporal precedence -- 2.2. Proximality -- 2.3. Presupposition -- 2.4. Immediate successor -- 2.5. Combined semantics -- 3. Corpora investigations -- 3.1. Unrestricted temporal precedence -- 3.2. Proximality -- 3.3. Immediacy -- 3.4. Explicit length of time -- 4. Conclusions -- 4.1. Combining formal semantics and corpus studies -- 4.2. Future investigation -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.
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