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Incrementality, Alignment and Shared Utterances

Citation: Kempson, Ruth and Purver, Matthew (2004) Incrementality, Alignment and Shared Utterances.

This paper describes an implemented prototype dialogue model within the Dynamic Syntax (DS) framework (Kempson et al., 2001) which directly reflects dialogue phenomena such as alignment, routinization and shared utterances. In DS, word-by-word incremental parsing and generation are defined in terms of actions on semantic tree structures. This paper proposes a model of dialogue context which includes these trees and their associated actions, and shows how alignment and routinization result directly from minimisation of lexicon search (and hence speaker's effort), and how switch of speaker/hearer roles in shared utterances can be seen as a switch between incremental processes directed by different goals, but sharing the same (partial) data structures.Article

Additional Information: Citation: In Jonathan Ginzburg and Enric VallduvĂ­ (eds.), "Catalog '04 : Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Barcelona", 85-92.
Creators: Kempson, Ruth and Purver, Matthew and
Subjects: Philosophy
Keywords: Dynamic syntax, Dialogue
Divisions: Institute of Philosophy
Collections: London Philosophy Papers
Dates:
  • 2004 (published)
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