Questions in Dialogue

Nicholas Asher; Alex Lascarides

doi:10.1023/A:1005364332007

Questions in Dialogue

Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides

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In this paper we explore how compositional semantics, discourse structure, and the cognitive states of participants all contribute to pragmatic constraints on answers to questions in dialogue. We synthesise formal semantic theories on questions and answers with techniques for discourse interpretation familiar from computational linguistics, and show how this provides richer constraints on responses in dialogue than either component can achieve alone.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	237-309
Number of pages	73
Journal	Linguistics and Philosophy
Volume	21
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005364332007
Publication status	Published - 1998

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