Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints
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.
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Passonneau. "Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1995.Markdown
[Passonneau. "Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1995.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1995/passonneau1995ijcai-integrating/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{passonneau1995ijcai-integrating,
title = {{Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints}},
author = {Passonneau, Rebecca J.},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1995},
pages = {1267-1275},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1995/passonneau1995ijcai-integrating/}
}