Technical Reports (CIS)
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
9-1-1988
Abstract
Computational approaches to discourse understanding have a two-part goal: (1) identifying those aspects of discourse understanding that require process-based accounts, and (2) characterizing the processes and data structures they involve. To date, in the area of reference, process-based accounts have been developed for reference via anaphoric pronouns and via definite descriptors. In this paper, I propose and argue for a process-based account of deictic reference in text. This account adds precision to common notions of discourse entity, discourse segment and focus and to relationships between the three.
Recommended Citation
Bonnie L. Webber, "Discourse Deixis and Discourse Processing", . September 1988.
Date Posted: 19 September 2007
Comments
University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-88-75.