Lascarides, A. and N. Asher, [1991] Discourse Relations and Defeasible Knowledge, in Proceedings to the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL91), pp55--63, Berkeley USA, June 1991.
This paper presents a formal account of the temporal interpretation of text. The distinct natural interpretations of texts with similar syntax are explained in terms of defeasible rules characterising causal laws and Gricean-style pragmatic maxims. Intuitively compelling patterns of defeasible entailment that are supported by the logic in which the theory is expressed are shown to underly temporal interpretation.
@inproceedings{lascarides:asher:1991,
author = {A. Lascarides and N. Asher},
year = {1991},
title = {Discourse Relations and Defeasible Knowledge},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL91)},
pages = {55--63},
address = {Berkeley}
}