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Joshi, Aravind K., Bonnie L. Webber and Ivan A. Sag, eds. 1981. Elements of discourse understanding. Cambridge University Press. ix + 341 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse, comprehension of

Articles in this volume

Webber, Bonnie L., Aravind K. Joshi and Ivan A. Sag. Introduction. 1–9
Clark, Herbert H. and Catherine R. Marshall. Definite reference and mutual knowledge. 10–63
Gazdar, Gerald J.M. Speech act assignment. 64–83
Grosz, Barbara J. Focusing and description in natural language dialogues. 84–105
Kaplan, S. Jerrold. Appropriate responses to inappropriate questions. 127–144
Lehnert, Wendy G. A computional theory of human question answering. 145–176
Miller, George A. and Donna A. Kwilosz. Interactions of modality and negation in English. 201–216
Perrault, C.Raymond and Philip R. Cohen. It's for your own good: A note on inaccurate reference. 217–230
Prince, Ellen F. On the inferencing of indefinite-'this' NPs. 231–250
Rosenschein, Stanley J. Abstract theories of discourse and the formal specification of programs that converse. 251–265
Waltz, David L. Generating and understanding scene descriptions. 266–282
Webber, Bonnie L. Discourse model synthesis: Preliminaries to reference. 283–299
Woods, William A. Procedural semantics as a theory of meaning. 300–334

Reviewed by

MacWhinney, Brian. 1983. Review of A. K. Joshi, B. L. Webber, I. A. Sag (1981: `Elements of discourse understanding').