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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100198236875
ISBN-139780198236870
eBay Product ID (ePID)839256
Product Key Features
Number of Pages462 Pages
Publication NameCentering Theory in Discourse
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
SubjectLinguistics / Semantics, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
AuthorAravind K. Joshi
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight28.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN97-016241
Dewey Edition21
Reviews'This volume... represents an important follow-up to the work on centering carried out in the late eighties and early nineties, and in this context it is a timely collection of a number of interesting contributions.'Ruslan Mitkov, Computational Linguistics Vol.25 No.4
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal401/.41
Table Of Content1. IntroductionPART I. GOALS OF CENTERING2. Formal Systems for Complexity and Control of Inference: A Reprise and Some Hints3. Lost Intuitions and Forgotten IntentionsPART II. UTTERANCE-LEVEL ISSUES IN CENTERING4. Ranking Forward-Looking Centers5. Control and Event Structure: The View from the Center6. Intrasentential Centering: A Case StudyPART III. CENTERING AS A CROSS-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSAL7. Centering in Italian8. Ranking Forward-Looking Centers in Turkish: Universal and Language-Specific Properties9. Discourse Coherence and Shifting Centers in Japanese TextsPART IV. THE ROLE OF CENTERING IN PROCESSING MODELS OF DISCOURSE10. Centering Theory and the Givenness Hierarchy: Towards a Synthesis11. Assigning Antecedents to Ambiguous Pronouns: The Role of the Center of Attention as the Default Assignment12. Centering as a Psychological Resource for Achieving Joint Reference in Spontaneous DiscoursePART V. INFORMATION STRUCTURE AND CENTERING13. Word Order, Information Structure, and Centering in Turkish14. A Quantitative Look at Discourse Coherence15. Centering, Global Focus, and Right-Dislocation16. Recency Effects in English InversionPART VI. DISCOURSE STRUCTURE AND CENTERING17. Interaction of Discourse Structure with Explicitness of Discourse Anaphoric Noun Phrases18. The Place of Centering in a General Theory of Anaphora Resolution19. Centering, Anaphora Resolution, and Discourse Structure
SynopsisMany areas of language-related research -- language processing, linguistic semantics/pragmatics, speech understanding and synthesis, and psychological theories of attention -- have shown an increasing need to describe and understand aspects of discourse anaphora in relation to both processing complexity and the global structure of discourse. A major problem in this area is the large gap between existing theories and accounts of actual phenomena in naturallyoccurring discourse. Centering Theory is an account of one aspect of discourse, local discourse structure, that makes specific claims about both processing complexity and discourseanaphora. Centering Theory in Discourse focuses on Centering Theory's ability to account for data from naturally occurring discourse in several languages. The contributors test empirically several claims of Centering Theory, propose extensions to and refinements of Centering, and show how it can be integrated with other aspects of discourse structure and processing., This edited collection of previously unpublished papers focuses on Centering Theory, an account of local discourse structure. Developed in the context of computational linguistics and cognitive science, Centering theory has attracted the attention of an international interdisciplinary audience. As the authors focus on naturally occurring data, they join the general trend towards empiricism in research on computational models of discourse, providing a significant contribution to a fast-moving field., Many areas of language-related research -- language processing, linguistic semantics/pragmatics, speech understanding and synthesis, and psychological theories of attention -- have shown an increasing need to describe and understand aspects of discourse anaphora in relation to both processing complexity and the global structure of discourse. A major problem in this area is the large gap between existing theories and accounts of actual phenomena in naturally occurring discourse. Centering Theory is an account of one aspect of discourse, local discourse structure, that makes specific claims about both processing complexity and discourse anaphora. Centering Theory in Discourse focuses on Centering Theory's ability to account for data from naturally occurring discourse in several languages. The contributors test empirically several claims of Centering Theory, propose extensions to and refinements of Centering, and show how it can be integrated with other aspects of discourse structure and processing., This edited collection of previously unpublished papers focuses on Centering Theory, which has been developed in the context of computational linguistics and cognitive science. It concerns the principles by which sentences in a discourse are linked to one another. The authors' focus on naturally occurring data is part of a general trend towards empiricism in research on computational models of discourse. Centering Theory has attracted theattention of an international interdisciplinary audience and this book is a significant contribution to a fast-moving field.
LC Classification NumberP302.C39 1998
