Information Sharing
Reference and Presupposition in
Language Generation and Interpretation
edited by Kees van Deemter and Rodger Kibble
This book introduces the concept of information sharing as an area of cognitive science. Information sharing is defined here as the process by which speakers depend on ‘given’ information (i.e., information already shared with the hearer from previous communication) when they convey ‘new’ information (i.e., information assumed to be new to the hearer). Information sharing is a key concept in linguistics and philosophy, where it is related to notions like presupposition, anaphora, focus, and indexicality. It is also perceived as crucial in various areas of language engineering because computer-based processing of language and speech relies heavily on the computer's ability to distinguish between given and new information.
Where previous work in information sharing is often fragmented between different academic disciplines (in particular, between linguistics and computer science), the present volume brings together theoretical and applied work, and it joins computational contributions with papers based on an analysis of language corpora and on psycholinguistic experimentation. A remarkable number of the contributions take a generation-oriented, rather than an interpretation-oriented perspective, asking what is the most appropriate verbal expression of an item of information in a given situation.
Kees van Deemter is a Principal Research Fellow at the Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), University of Brighton. Rodger Kibble is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Information Packaging: From Cards to Boxes
Herman Hendriks
- 2 Presupposed Propositions in a Corpus of Dialogue
Jennifer Spenader
- 3 Explaining Presupposition Triggers
Henk Zeevat
- 4 Demonstratives as Definites
Craig Roberts
- 5 The use of emphatic reflexives with NPs in English
Cassandre Creswell
- 6 The Role of Salience in the Production of Referring Expressions
Rosemary Stevenson
- 7 Generation of Contextually Appropriate Word Order
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Geert-Jan Kruijff and John Bateman
- 8 Efficient Context-Sensitive Generation of Referring Expressions
Emiel Krahmer and Mariët Theune
- 9 Generating Descriptions Containing Quantifiers: Aggregation and Search
Norman Creaney
- 10 Contextual Influences on Attribute for Repeated Descriptions
Pamela W. Jordon
- 11 Toward the Generation of Document-Deictic References
Ivandré Paraboni and Kees van Deemter
- 12 Some Observations on Deixis to Properties
Elizabeth Klipple and John Gurney
- 13 Relevance and Perceptual Constraints in Multimodal Refereing Actions
Frédéric Landragin, Antonella De Angeli, Frédéric Wolff, Patrice Lopez and Laurent Romary
- Index
8/1/2002
ISBN (Paperback): 1575864045 (9781575864044)
ISBN (Cloth): 1575864037 (9781575864037)
ISBN (Electronic): 1575869586 (9781575869582)
Subject: Reference (Linguistics); Presupposition (Logic); Computational Linguistics
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