Language and Information (한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보)
- Volume 4 Issue 1
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- Pages.67-82
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- 2000
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- 1226-7430(pISSN)
Anaphora Resolution and Discourse Structure: A Controlled Information Packaging Approach
Abstract
The purpose of the paper is twofold. First, we revise the well-known Centering Theory of anaphora resolution and propose the controlled Information Packaging Theory (for short, CIPT). Second, we suggest a solution to the resolution of the antecedents of pronouns within the framework of CIPT. For this purpose, we select a dialogue of hotel reservation as a domain-restricted discourse, and discourse, and discuss the characteristics of the distribution of pronouns. We suggest that we need to palce the Slot-Link element on the top of the forward centering list. We claim that we need to establish a constraint on conceptual compatibility. As for the pronouns in the global dialogue, we propose a constraint of discourse command.
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