Early interpretation by implicature in definite referential descriptions
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| Publication date | 2010 |
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| Book title | Aspects of Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue |
| Book subtitle | SemDial 2010, 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue |
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| Event | 14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2010), Poznań, Poland |
| Pages (from-to) | 111-118 |
| Publisher | Poznań: Polish Society for Cognitive Science |
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| Abstract | This paper discusses the processes by which dialogue participants incrementally compute the conveyed meaning of referential descriptions. I show that some of the phenomena observed in the psycholinguistics literature can be accounted for by theories of conversational implicature that exploit ingredients from computational models of Referring Expression Generation. The result is a system that computes inferences incrementally, from partial utterances, without need to reason with hypothesized complete descriptions. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
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http://events.illc.uva.nl/semdial/proceedings/semdial2010_pozdial_proceedings.pdf
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