Uncovering the structure of discaurse: Recent developments in manolo gic text generation
Julia Lavid · 1994
most urgent research tasks forthe discipline of discourse analysis inthe 1990s is an interdisciplinary discussion about the types ofstructure that a unifiedtheory ol discourse should account br. To date. this scientific enterprise has onlybeen partially undertaken by researchers in the various fields of Linguisties,Sociology. Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence. to name only a few, with theresult that cfforts in one area have often been ignored or insufficiently made useofby the other. An example of this is the tare adoption of computation as arnediumlot theoretical development by linguists. The aim ofthis paper is lo partially bridgeIhis gap by contributing to The development of the theory of discourse from acomputational perspective. Basedon recent research by the anihor and others, Ihepapa describes the state~ofdhe-att in computational research on monologic textgeneration, concentraiing