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We present an integrated knowledge representation system for natural language processing (NLP) whose main distinguishing feature is its emphasis on encoding not only the usual propositional structure of the utterances in the input text, but also capturing an entire complex of nonpropositional — discourse, attitudinal, and other pragmatic — meanings that NL texts always carry. The need for discourse pragmatics, together with generic semantic information, is demonstrated in the context of anaphoric and definite noun phrase resolution for accurate machine translation. The major types of requisite pragmatic knowledge are presented, and an extension of a frame-based formalism developed in the context of the TRANSLATOR system is proposed as a first-pass codification of the integrated knowledge base.
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Nirenburg, S., Carbonell, J. Integrating discourse pragmatics and propositional knowledge for multilingual natural language processing. Mach Translat 2, 105–116 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02274440
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