Fine-Grained Discourse Structures in Continuation Semantics

Timothée Bernard


Abstract
In this work, we are interested in the computation of logical representations of discourse. We argue that all discourse connectives are anaphors obeying different sets of constraints and show how this view allows one to account for the semantically parenthetical use of attitude verbs and verbs of report (e.g., think, say) and for sequences of conjunctions (A CONJ_1 B CONJ_2 C). We implement this proposal in event semantics using de Groote (2006)’s dynamic framework.
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W18-5034
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Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
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July
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2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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Kazunori Komatani, Diane Litman, Kai Yu, Alex Papangelis, Lawrence Cavedon, Mikio Nakano
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SIGDIAL
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SIGDIAL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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296–305
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-5034
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10.18653/v1/W18-5034
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Timothée Bernard. 2018. Fine-Grained Discourse Structures in Continuation Semantics. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 296–305, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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