Segmented Discourse Representation Theory
Gao Yu · 2013
By introducing rhetorical structure into dynamic semantics,SDRT integrates the research of dynamic semantics with AI approaches on discourse interpretation. SDRT provides the logic of information content and the glue logic. SDRT includes a language Lulf in which logical forms of discourse are described. It's a language in which one can express information about semantic under specification,and its consequence relation captures the relation between an underspecified logical form and all its possible interpretations. By the glue logic and the principle MDC,discourse update defines a relation between an underspecified logical form and its pragmatically preferred interpretations.