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Intentions and information in discourse

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Nicholas Asher,

Alex LascaridesAuthors Info & Claims

ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 34 - 41

https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981738

Published: 27 June 1994 Publication History

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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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