Analysis of "natural" language discourse

  • Authors:

  • Sally Yeates Sedelow

  • Affiliations:

  • The National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. and The University of Kansas at Lawrence

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '76 Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1976, national computer conference and exposition
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

Referential linkage in extended language strings (multiple-sentence, paragraph, etc.) is of great interest to computer scientists, linguists, and literary scholars concerned with the analysis of discourse. In all three disciplines, semantic relationships are central to approaches to inter-sentential, inter-paragraph, and inter-supraparagraph linkings. This paper compares and contrasts some of the directions taken in current research and explores the possible utility of a general-purpose thesaurus for the construction of semantic frames of reference. The utility of such a thesaurus for measuring semantic distance between terms and thus establishing possible linkages is suggested by an experiment concerning word prefixation.