Contextual phenomena in dialogue
Karine Baschung, Gabriel G. Bès, Rachel Panckhurst, Henk Zeevat · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 1986
This document is an intermediate deliverable for the ACORD Esprit Project 393, on the construction and interrogation of knowledge bases using natural language text and graphics. It examines a series of linguistic phenomena related to a dialogue situation. Ellipsis and anaphora are treated in chapter 1 and partly in chapter 2, under the heading " Notation of different types of anaphora ". The rest of chapter 2 is dedicated to a definition a " Minimal Dialogue " and a detailed description of French interrogative structures. Chapter 3 deals with descriptive problems met when trying to implement the targeted structures in the UCG formalism. Chapter 4 deals with the semantic representation of questions. Chapter 5 ends the survey by presenting some suggestions for implementation standards for the ACORD prototype Dialogue Parsers.