Situated utterances and discourse relations

Matthew Stone; Una Stojnic; Ernest Lepore

Situated utterances and discourse relations

Matthew Stone, Una Stojnic, Ernest Lepore

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Abstract

Utterances in situated activity are about the world. Theories and systems normally capture this by assuming references must be resolved to real-world entities in utterance understanding. We describe a number of puzzles and problems for this approach, and propose an alternative semantic representation using discourse relations that link utterances to the nonlinguistic context to capture the contextdependent interpretation of situated utterances. Our approach promises better empirical coverage and more straightforward system building. Substantiating these advantages is work in progress.

Original language	English (US)
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2013 - Potsdam, Germany Duration: Mar 19 2013 → Mar 22 2013

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Conference	10th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2013
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Potsdam
Period	3/19/13 → 3/22/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems
Computer Science Applications

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