1995 ProvidingAUnifAccOfDefNPs

• (Grosz et al., 1995) ⇒ Barbara J. Grosz, A. Joshi, S. Weinstein. (1995). “Providing a Unified Account of Definite Noun Phrases in Discourse.” In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. doi:10.3115/981311.981320

Subject Headings: Definite Noun Phrase, Definite Description, Referring Expression.

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Quotes

1. Overview

• Even a casual survey of the literature on definite descriptions and referring expressions reveals not only defects in the individual accounts provided by theorists (from several different disciplines), but also deep confusions about the roles that syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors play in accounting for these phenomena.

2. The Effects of Different Levels of Discourse Coherence

• A discourse comprises utterances that combine into subconstituents of the discourse, namely, units of discourse that are typically larger than a single sentence, but smaller than the complete discourse. However, the constituent structure is not determined solely by the linear sequence of utterances. It is common for two contiguous utterances to be members of different subconstituents of the discourse (as with breaks between phrases in the syntactic analysis of a sentence); likewise, it is common for two utterances that are not contiguous to be members of the same subconstituent.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1995 ProvidingAUnifAccOfDefNPs	Barbara J. Grosz Aravind K. Joshi S. Weinstein			Providing a Unified Account of Definite Noun Phrases in Discourse			http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P83/P83-1007.pdf	10.3115/981311.981320