Oberlander, J. and A. Lascarides, [2000] Laconic Discourses and Total Eclipses: Abduction in DICE, in Harry Bunt and William Black (eds.), Abduction, Beliefs and Context: Studies in Computational Pragmatics, pp391--412, John Benjamins, London.
The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate one particular use of abduction in the processing of natural language discourse. DICE (Discourse In Commonsense Entailment) can be used for both interpretation and generation. For interpretation, it uses defeasible deduction to compute the discourse structures and the event structures of multi-sentential text. For generation, it uses abduction to build up specifications of text from the underlying event structures. Here we demonstrate how the information flow between impicatures on the one hand and interpretation and generation on the other can be modelled, thereby showing that DICE provides a `reversible' model of the semantics/pragmatics interface.
@incollection{oberlander:lascarides:2000,
author = {Jon Oberlander and Alex Lascarides},
year = {2000},
title = {Laconic Discourses and Total Eclipses: Abduction in DICE},
editor = {H.\ Bunt and W.\ Black},
booktitle = {Abduction, Beliefs and Context: Studies in Computational Pragmatics},
pages = {391--412},
publisher = {John Benjamins}
}