% % GENERATED FROM https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de % by : anonymous % IP : coli2006.lst.uni-saarland.de % at : Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:43:31 +0100 GMT % % Selection : Reference #568 % @InProceedings{Gardent_Kohlhase:1997, AUTHOR = {Gardent, Claire and Kohlhase, Michael}, TITLE = {Computing Parallelism in Discourse}, YEAR = {1997}, BOOKTITLE = {15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '97), August 23-29}, VOLUME = {2}, PAGES = {1016-1021}, ADDRESS = {Nagoya, Japan}, PUBLISHER = {Morgan Kaufmann Publishers}, ABSTRACT = {Although much has been said about parallelism in discourse, a formal, computational theory of parallelism structure is still outstanding. In this paper, we present a theory which given two parallel utterances predicts which are the parallel elements. The theory consists of a sorted, higher-order abductive calculus and we show that it reconciles the insights of discourse theories of parallelism with those of Higher-Order Unification approaches to discourse semantics, thereby providing a natural framework in which to capture the effect of parallelism on discourse semantics.} }