Abstract
At the start of my career, I had the good fortune of working with Ron Kaplan on Bill Woods’ Lunar system (Woods et al., 1972). One day, in talking with Ron, I marvelled to him over the range of syntactic constructions I was able to implement in Lunar’s ATN grammar formalism. Ron replied was that you could implement anything in an ATN: the point was, rather, to identify the minimal machinery required for a task. This sensible advice I subsequently sought to follow, and in this paper for Ron’s festschrift, I try to apply it to understanding and comparing accounts of discourse relations.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Intelligent Linguistic Architectures |
| Subtitle of host publication | Variations on Themes by Ronald M. Kaplan |
| Editors | Miriam Butt, Mary Dalrymple, Tracy Holloway King |
| Publisher | CSLI Publications |
| Pages | 339-360 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 1575867796 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1575865327 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2006 |