Planning Reference Choices for Argumentative Texts
- This paper deals with the reference choices involved in thegeneration of argumentative text. A piece of argument-ative text such as the proof of a mathematical theoremconveys a sequence of derivations. For each step of de-rivation, the premises (previously conveyed intermediateresults) and the inference method (such as the applica-tion of a particular theorem or definition) must be madeclear. The appropriateness of these references cruciallyaffects the quality of the text produced.Although not restricted to nominal phrases, our refer-ence decisions are similar to those concerning nominalsubsequent referring expressions: they depend on theavailability of the object referred to within a context andare sensitive to its attentional hierarchy . In this paper,we show how the current context can be appropriatelysegmented into an attentional hierarchy by viewing textgeneration as a combination of planned and unplannedbehavior, and how the discourse theory of Reichmann canbe adapted to handle our special reference problem.
Author: | Xiaorong Huang |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-2331 |
Document Type: | Article |
Language of publication: | English |
Year of Completion: | 1999 |
Year of first Publication: | 1999 |
Publishing Institution: | Technische Universität Kaiserslautern |
Date of the Publication (Server): | 2000/04/03 |
Faculties / Organisational entities: | Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Informatik |
DDC-Cassification: | 0 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft / 004 Informatik |
Licence (German): | Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011 |