Expectations in Incremental Discourse Processing

Dan Cristea; Bonnie Webber

doi:10.3115/976909.979629

Expectations in Incremental Discourse Processing

Dan Cristea, Bonnie Webber

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The way in which discourse features express connections back to the previous discourse has been described in the literature in terms of adjoining at the right frontier of discourse structure. But this does not allow for discourse features that express expectations about what it to come in the subsequent discourse. After characterizing these expectations and their distribution in text, we show how an approach that makes use of substitution as well as adjoining on a suitably defined right frontier, can be used to both process expectations and constrain discourse processing in general.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Place of Publication	Madrid, Spain
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	88-95
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/976909.979629
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 1997
Event	35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Universidad Nacional de Educaci6n a Distancia (UNED) , Madrid, Spain Duration: 7 Jul 1997 → 12 Jul 1997

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Conference	35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	7/07/97 → 12/07/97

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Cristea, D & Webber, B 1997, Expectations in Incremental Discourse Processing. in Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, Madrid, Spain, pp. 88-95, 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Madrid, Spain, 7/07/97. https://doi.org/10.3115/976909.979629

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