Discourse Structure and Anaphoric Accessibility
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چکیده
We evaluated the predictions of Grosz and Sidner’s theory of anaphoric accessibility using a corpus of tutorial dialogues whose discourse structure was annotated according to Relational Discourse (RDA) Analysis. We found support for Moser and Moore’s proposal that only segments with an intentional core should be viewed as introducing new focus spaces; we also found that both embedded cores and embedded contributors should remain open as long as the RDA-segment in which they occur is open, and discuss the implications of this finding for Grosz and Sidner’s theory.
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