Constraints On Reference And Segmentation In Conversational Discourse

该项目涉及话语处理中的两个相互依赖的问题。 第一个是开发一种明确的指称关系的陈述性表示，用于话语照应词的生成和理解。目标是考虑语言形式和动态更新的话语模式的相互制约作用。第二个是确定如何识别构成话语的不同话语动作，以及如何在动态构建的意向结构分层模型中将这些动作联系起来。

This project is concerned with two interdependent problems in discourse processing. The first is to develop an explicit dclarative representation of referring relations to be used in the generation and understanding of discourse anaphors. The goal is to account for the mutually constraining effects of linguistic form and the dynamically updated discourse mode. The second is to determine how to identify the distinct discourseactions that comprise a discourse, and how to relate these actions in a dynamically constructed hierarchical model of intentional structure.