Levels of Complexity in Discourse for Reference Disambiguation and Speech Act Interpretation.

Abstract

This paper presents a discussion of means of describing the discourse and its components which makes speech act interpretation and reference disambiguation possible with minimal search of the knowledge in the database. A portion of this paper will consider how a frames representation of sentences and common sense knowledge provides a mechanism for representing the postulated discourse components. Finally some discussion of the use of the discourse model and of frames in a discourse understanding program for a personal assistant will be presented. (Author)

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA052306

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  • Candace Bullwinkle

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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