The Role of the Gricean Maxims in the Generation of Referring Expressions
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چکیده
Grice’s maxims of conversation [Grice 1975] are framed as directives to be followed by a speaker of the language. This paper argues that, when considered from the point of view of natural language generation, such a characterisation is rather misleading, and that the desired behaviour falls out quite naturally if we view language generation as a goal-oriented process. We argue this position with particular regard to the generation of referring expressions.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره cmp-lg/9604006 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996