Towards the Use of Automated Reasoning in Discourse Disambiguation

  • Authors:
  • Claire Gardent;Bonnie Webber

  • Affiliations:
  • CNRS, B.P. 239, Campus Scientifique, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France/ E-mail: claire.gardent@loria.fr;Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN, U.K./ E-mail: bonnie.webber@ed.ac.uk

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Logic, Language and Information
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper, we claim that the disambiguation ofreferring expressions in discourse can be formulated in terms automatedreasoners can address. Specifically, we show that consistency,informativity and minimality are criteria which (i) can be implementedusing automated reasoning tools and (ii) can be used to disambiguatenoun-noun compounds, metonymy and definite descriptions.