Analyzing the structure of argumentative discourse
Computational Linguistics
Local and global structures in discourse understanding
EACL '83 Proceedings of the first conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A computational theory of the function of clue words in argument understanding
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Taking the initiative in natural language data base interactions: justifying why
COLING '82 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Interpreting clues in conjunction with processing restrictions in arguments and discourse
AAAI'87 Proceedings of the sixth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Interpreting clues in conjunction with processing restrictions in arguments and discourse
AAAI'87 Proceedings of the sixth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
This paper outlines research on processing strategies being developed for a language understanding system, designed to interpret the structure of arguments. For the system, arguments are viewed as trees, with claims as fathers to their evidence. Then understanding becomes a problem of developing a representative argtmlent tree, by locating each proposition of the argument at its appropriate place. The processing strategies we develop for the hearer are based on expectations that the speaker will use particular coherent transmission strategies and are designed to be fairly efficient (work in linear time). We also comment on the use by the speaker of linguistic clues to indicate structure, illustrating how the hearer can interpret the clues to limit his processing search and thus improve the comlexity of the understanding process.