Information State Update: Semantics or Pragmatics?
Raquel Fern, Matthew Purver · 2003
We argue for an approach which treats the compositional semantic content of an utterance as including its basic dialogue update effects ‐ those which can be derived entirely from its semantic and syntactic properties. This allows us to capture the distinction between these integral semantic contextual effects and those pragmatic effects which can only be determined from the interaction between features of the utterance and the context itself.