Publications

Publication details [#34926]

Reichman, Rachel. 1985. Getting computers to talk like you and me: Discourse context, focus, and semantics (an ATN). MIT Press. xiii + 221 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

computational linguistics | context | discourse grammar | discourse structure

Annotation

R. sets out to create a discourse grammar, analyzing discourse surface characteristics in terms of utterance functions within context spaces, utilizing, amongst others, augmented transition networks (ATNs), yet without reference to the intentions of actors.

Reviewed by

Sanders, Robert E. and Christine Iacobucci. 1989. Review of $Getting computers to talk like you and me: Discourse context, focus, and semantics (an ATN).