On the generation and interpretation of demonstrative expressions

Authors:
Jeanette Gundel;Nancy Hedberg;Ron Zacharski
Affiliations:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Venue:
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Year:
1988

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Abstract

This paper presents necessary and sufficient conditions for the use of demonstrative expressions in English and discusses implications for current discourse processing algorithms. We examine a broad range of texts to show how the distribution of demonstrative forms and functions is genre dependent. This research is part of a larger study of anaphoric expressions, the results of which will be incorporated into a natural language generation system.