Centering Theory

A Centering Theory is a Discourse Analysis Theory based on ...

• Context:
  • It can explain the relationship between Focus, Anaphora, and Cohesion.
  • It can involve the identification of Discourse Entityies
  • It can be a Domain-specific Account.
• See: Discourse-level Analysis Task, Intentional Communication.

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References

1999

• (Strube and Hahn, 1999) ⇒ Michael Strube, and Udo Hahn. (1999). “Functional Centering Grounding Referential Coherence in Information Structure.” In: Computational Linguistics.

1995

• (Grosz et al, 1995) ⇒ Barbara J. Grosz, Scott Weinstein, and Aravind K. Joshi. (1995). “Centering: A Framework for Modeling the Local Coherence of Discourse.” In: Computational Linguistics, 21(2).

1983

• (Grosz et al, 1983) ⇒ Barbara J Grosz, Aravind K Joshi, and Scott Weinstein. (1983). “Providing a Unified Account of Definite Noun Phrases in Discourse.” In: Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics.

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