Towards a Representation of the Rhetorical Structure of Interrupted Exchanges
Towards a Representation of the Rhetorical Structure of Interrupted Exchanges
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走向中断交流的修辞结构的表征
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10.1007/3-540-60800-1_26
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1993
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T. Daradoumis
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T. Daradoumis
This paper presents work on development of a new approach that aims to model dynamic phenomena (such as interruptions) in dialogue while preserving its overall coherence. The main goal of the work is to capture in a representation the dynamic nature of how turns in a dialogue are to be characterized given the fact that the force of a move can change as it is reacted to and as the dialogue takes on unanticipatable directions, particularly because of interruptions. To achieve this, the approach integrates Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) — a potential representation formalism for text generation — with a linguistic theory of exchange structure and dynamics. In particular, the work takes an initial representation of the rhetorical structure of ‘polite consensus’ exchanges as a point of departure and proceeds by extending and giving it a further dynamic perspective. This extension enriches the base of the representational system (i.e., RST) with an extensive set of new principles, notions and technical additions/changes so that we accommodate the style of analysis we have adopted. Though the paper takes, in principle, an analytical approach to language, we show how the resulting model can be fruitfully used to model and generate coherent interactive discourse.