Pragmatic overloading in Natural Language instructions

Pragmatic overloading in Natural Language instructions (1996)

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by Barbara Di Eugenio , Bonnie Lynn Webber

Venue:	Representation and Reasoning for Natural Language Processing
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TITLE	Pragmatic overloading in Natural Language instructions	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Barbara Di Eugenio	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Computational Linguistics; Department of Philosophy; Carnegie Mellon University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	5000 Forbes Avenue; Pittsburgh, PA, 15213	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	Bonnie Lynn Webber	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Computer and Information Science; Moore School; University of Pennsylvania	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	200 S. 33rd Street; Philadelphia, PA 19104	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
ABSTRACT	It has long been noted that Natural Language utterances can communicate more than their conventional meaning (Grice, 1975). It has also been noted that behaving appropriately in response to instructions given in Natural Language requires understanding more than their conventional meaning (Suppes and Crangle, 1988; Webber and Di Eugenio, 1990; Webber et al., 1992). This paper addresses one mechanism by which speakers convey, and hearers derive, such additional aspects of meaning -- a mechanism we call pragmatic overloading. In pragmatic overloading, a clause interpreted as conveying directly or indirectly the goal fi of an action ff which is described by some other clause, forms the basis of constrained inference that leads to additional information about the action ff. The paper demonstrates pragmatic overloading through a variety of clausal adjuncts. We then discuss a framework that supports many of the inferences that pragmatic overloading gives rise to. This framework integrates a ...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1996	INFERENCE
VENUE	Representation and Reasoning for Natural Language Processing	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
VOLUME	9	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	41 found	ParsCit 1.0