@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.}
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