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Abstract:

This paper contains an investigation of the relationship between rhetorical relations and intentions. Rhetorical relations are claimed to be actions, and thus the proper objects of intentions, although some relations may occur be independent of intentions. Explicit identification of particular relations is shown to be not always necessary when this information can be captured in other ways, nevertheless, relations are often useful both in planning and recognition. Rhetorical Relations and Intentions There are a number of different types of relationships between proximate segments of language, as well as a number of terms used to differentiate groups of these types. For the present purposes I make no distinction (as do, e.g. [Sidner; Moser and Moore]) between affective and other types of discourse coherence relations. Since my primary interest is in conversation (rather than, say, single producer text), I also include relations between utterances by different speakers. Another dimension along which a distinction could be made is what exactly is being related? Are relations between explicit spans of language text or between elements of the expressed contents of texts or perhaps mixes between these categories? Again, I will not make any such distinctions here, and

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