Intentions and Information in Discourse
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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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/cmp-lg/9406001 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994