Schlangen, D. and A. Lascarides [2002] Resolving Fragments Using Discourse Information, Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (EDILOG), pp. 161--168, Edinburgh, September 2002.
This paper describes an extension of RUDI, a dialogue system component for `Resolving Underspecification with Discourse Information' (Schlangen et al., 2001). The extension handles the resolution of the intended meaning of non-sentential utterances that denote propositions or questions. Some researchers have observed that there are complex syntactic, semantic and pragmatic constraints on the acceptability of such fragments, and have used this to motivate an unmodular architecture for their analysis. In contrast, our implementation is based on a clear separation of the processes of constructing compositional semantics of fragments from those for resolving their meaning in context. This is shown to have certain theoretical and practical advantages.
@inproceedings{schlangen:lascarides:2002,
author = {David Schlangen and Alex Lascarides},
year = {2002},
title = {Resolving Fragments using Discourse Information},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Edilog)},
address = {Edinburgh}
}