1995 Centering

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Subject Headings: Centering Theory, Referring Expression, Discourse-level Analysis Task.

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This paper concerns relationships among focus of attention, choice of referring expression, and perceived coherence of utterances within a discourse segment. It presents a framework and initial theory of centering intended to model the local component of attentional state. The paper examines interactions between local coherence and choice of referring expressions; it argues that differences in coherence correspond in part to the inference demands made by different types of referring expressions, given a particular attentional state. It demonstrates that the attentional state properties modeled by centering can account for these differences.


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 AuthorvolumeDate ValuetitletypejournaltitleUrldoinoteyear
1995 CenteringBarbara J. Grosz
Scott Weinstein
Aravind K. Joshi		Centering: A Framework for Modeling the Local Coherence of Discoursehttp://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J95/J95-2003.pdf
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