Abstract
Centering has been proposed to fill the role of modeling the local level of attentional state within Grosz and Sidner’s ( 1986) model of discourse structure. In this chapter, we demonstrate that centering can also aid in explaining a particular syntactic structure, right dislocation. To do so, we propose a modification to the attentional state model that coordinates the global level of attentional state with centering. The chapter includes an analysis of right dislocation constructions in English and Hebrew.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Centering theory in discourse |
| Editors | Marilyn A Walker , Aravind K. Joshi, Ellen F. Prince |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 293-307 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780198236870 |
| State | Published - 1998 |
Keywords
- Anaphora
- Artificial Intelligence
- Attention
- Cognitive Psychology
- Computational Linguistics
- Discourse Analysis
- English
- Focus
- Hebrew
- Language Processing
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