Frame based recognition of theme continuity
James Thaddeus. Critz · 1982
The paper describes a system which determines continuity and shifts in English texts on the basis of sentential themes. The theme object within the thematic component of a sentence is determined and a search is made to associate it with a frame shared with the previous theme or themes. If the theme object cannot be associated directly with one of these frames, interpretive rules are applied to do so indirectly through one of the frames normally associated with the object but not yet with the text.