Open AccessAn Incremental Model of Anaphora and Reference Resolution Based on Resource Situations
Author(s) -
Massimo Poesio,
Hannes Rieser
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
dialogue and discourse
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2152-9620
DOI - 10.5087/dad.2011.110
Subject(s) - anaphora (linguistics) , interpretation (philosophy) , computer science , definiteness , resolution (logic) , semantics (computer science) , natural language processing , resource (disambiguation) , variety (cybernetics) , semantic interpretation , reference model , artificial intelligence , linguistics , programming language , philosophy , computer network , software engineering
Notwithstanding conclusive psychological and corpus evidence that at least some aspects of anaphoric and referential interpretation take place incrementally, and the existence of some computational models of incremental reference resolution, many aspects of the linguistics of incremental reference interpretation still have to be better understood. We propose a model of incremental reference interpretation based on Loebner’s theory of definiteness and on the theory of anaphoric accessibility via resource situations developed in Situation Semantics, and show how this model can account for a variety of psychological results about incremental reference interpretation.