Intentions and Information in Discourse

نویسندگان

  • Nicholas Asher
  • Alex Lascarides
چکیده

This paper is about the flow of inference between communicative intentions, discourse structure and the domain during discourse processing. We augment a theory of discourse interpretation with a theory of distinct mental attitudes and reasoning about them, in order to provide an account of how the attitudes interact with reasoning about discourse structure.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/cmp-lg/9406001  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1994