tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19803222.post8966372274793856563..comments2024-03-18T01:45:45.724-06:00Comments on natural language processing blog: Why Discourse Structure?halhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02162908373916390369noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19803222.post-84109716844673420992010-08-04T13:50:00.929-06:002010-08-04T13:50:00.929-06:00I don't think we can even interpret words with...I don't think we can even interpret words without discourse context, even if it's just the context of the NLPer blog. And certainly not independently without world knowledge.<br /><br />Just look at the role of context in the interpration of quantifiers, which has been discussed since Strawson's criticisms of Russell's phrase-bound theory of reference.<br /><br />I'd suggest reading Grice's classic paper(s) on discourse. They're a bit higher level than the Hobbs ones, but get at the same idea. It really largely comes down largely to brevity versus clarity at every level from phonology through pragmatics (e.g. see the Niyogi work you cited in the last post for elaboration of a more mathematical nature for these ideas).Bob Carpenterhttp://lingpipe-blog.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19803222.post-12152679734285166922010-08-02T22:27:18.059-06:002010-08-02T22:27:18.059-06:00I'm interested in learning more about the NLP ...I'm interested in learning more about the NLP take on discourse structure analysis. Can you point me to some good places to start poking through the literature?Ryan Shawhttp://aeshin.org/noreply@blogger.com