Lascarides, A. and J. Oberlander, [1993] Temporal Connectives in a Discourse Context, in Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL93), pp260--268, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
We examine the role of temporal connectives in multi-sentence discourse. In certain contexts, sentences containing temporal connectives that are equivalent in temporal structure can fail to be equivalent in terms of discourse coherence. We account for this by offering a novel, formal mechanism for accommodating the presuppositions in temporal subordinate clauses. This mechanism encompasses both accommodation by discourse attachment and accommodation by temporal addition. As such, it offers a precise and systematic model of interactions between presupposed material, discourse context, and the reader's background knowledge. We show how the results of accommodation help to determine a discourse's coherence.
@inproceedings{lascarides:oberlander:1993,
author = {Alex Lascarides and Jon Oberlander},
year = {1993},
title = {Temporal Connectives in a Discourse Context},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the
European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (EACL93)},
pages = {260--268},
address = {Utrecht}
}