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| Discourse and Event Structure |
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| Project description |
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The project's aim is the development of a
discourse grammar considering formal approaches from
Linguistics, Knowledge Representation formalisms as
well as findings from Cognitive Psychology. The
investigations especially take into account the
procedural and incremental character of language
understanding/production. They go beyond current
approaches that provide only a declarative description
of discourse structure. Employing an
underspecification formalism offers a flexibile
approach for the analysis of discourse ambiguities as
well as for the incremental generation of text chunks
(e.g. generation of VP-ellipses).
Apart from the analysis of the discourse structure the
investigations also focus on the structure and the
representation of the events described by a
text. Events are seen as conceptualisations of changes
over time. There are similarities between discourse
structure and the conceptualisation of events:
temporal ordering and subdivision into parts. The
structure of a complex event, however, can differ from
the structure of the text describing this
event. Consequently, the investigation of discourse
structure and the anchoring of temporal expressions in
event structures is essential for studying discourse
and event structures.
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| Duration |
| since 4/1997 |
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