Integrating Gricean and attentional constraints

  • Authors:
  • Rebecca J. Passonneau

  • Affiliations:
  • Bellcore, Morristown, NJ

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

This paper concerns how to generate and understand discourse anaphoric noun phrases 1 present the results of an analysis of all discourse anaphoric noun phrases (N = 1,233) in a corpus of ten narrative monologues, where the choice between a definite pronoun or phrasal NP conforms largely to Gncean constraints on informativeness I discuss Dale & Reiter's [To appear] recent model and show how it can be augmented for understanding as well as generating the range of data presented here I argue that integrating centering [Grosz et al, 1983] [Kameyama, 1985] with this model can be applied uniformly to discourse anaphoric pronouns and phrasal NPs I conclude with a hypothesis for addressing the interaction between local and global discourse processing.