Linguistic coherence

Diane J. Litman
1986 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -  
To fully understand a sequence of utterances, one must be able to infer implicit relationships between the utterances. Although the identification of sets of utterance relationships forms the basis for many theories of discourse, the formalization and recognition of such relationships has proven to be an extremely difficult computational task. This paper presents a plan-based approach to the representation and recognition of implicit relationships between utterances. Relationships are
more » ... as discourse plans, which allows their representation in terms of planning operators and their computation via a plan recognition process. By incorporating complex inferential processes relating utterances into a plan-based framework, a formalization and computability not available in the earlier works is provided.
doi:10.3115/981131.981161 dblp:conf/acl/Litman86 fatcat:rh3emddsvrbf7oer3zz3mug7bq