Integrating Non-Linguistic Events into Discourse Structure
Julie Hunter, Nicholas M. Asher, Alex Lascarides · Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) · 2015
Interpreting an utterance sometimes depends on the presence and nature of non-linguistic actions. In this paper, we motivate and develop a semantic model of embodied interaction in which the contribution that non-linguistic events make to the content of the interaction is dependent on their rhetorical connections to other actions, both linguistic and non-linguistic. We support our claims with concrete examples from a corpus of online chats, comparing annotations of the linguistic-only content against annotations in which non-linguistic events in the context are taken into account.