A preliminary model of centering in dialog

  • Authors:
  • D. Byron;A. Stent

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Rochester, Rochester, NY;University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACL '98 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The centering framework explains local coherence by relating local focus and the form of referring expressions. It has proven useful in monolog, but its utility for multi-party discourse has not been shown, and a variety of issues must be tackled to adapt the model for dialog. This paper reports our application of three naive models of centering theory for dialog. These results will be used as baselines for evaluating future models.