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CENTERING THEORY IN DISCOURSE
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| By: |
Marilyn Walker (Editor), Aravind K. Joshi (Editor), Ellen F. Prince (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£72.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198236875 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198236870 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
18 December, 1997 |
| Pages: |
464 |
| Description: |
This edited collection of previously unpublished papers focuses on Centering Theory, which has been developed in the context of computational linguistics and cognitive science. It concerns the principles by which sentences in a discourse are linked to one another. The authors' focus on naturally occurring data is part of a general trend towards empiricism in research on computational models of discourse. Centering Theory has attracted the attention of an international interdisciplinary audience and this book is a significant contribution to a fast-moving field. |
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Many areas of language-related research - language processing, linguistic semantics/pragmatics, speech understanding and synthesis, and psychological theories of attention - have shown an increasing need to describe and understand aspects of discourse anaphora in relation to both processing complexity and the global structure of discourse. A major problem in this area is the large gap between existing theories and accounts of actual phenomena in naturally occurring discourse. Centering Theory is an account of one aspect of discourse, local discourse structure, that makes specific claims about both processing complexity and discourse anaphora. Centering Theory in Discourse focuses on Centering Theory's ability to account for data from naturally occurring discourse in several languages. The contributors test empirically several claims of Centering Theory, propose extensions to and refinements of Centering, and show how it can be integrated with other aspects of discourse structure and processing. |
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line figures, tables |
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UK |
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Clarendon Press |
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