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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
SDRT and Continuation Semantics
Authors : Nicholas Asher, Sylvain Pogodalla
Published in: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) [2,7] provides a dynamic semantics for discourse that exploits a rich notion of discourse structure. According to SDRT, a text is segmented into constituents related to each other by means of rhetorical relations; the resulting structure, known as a
segmented discourse representation structure
or SDRS has various semantic effects. This theory has shown how discourse structure makes contributions to the interpretation of a variety of linguistic phenomena, including tense, modality, presupposition, the interpretation of anaphoric pronouns and ellipsis. SDRT exploits dynamic semantics [20,14] to interpret SDRSs. We investigate here the advantages of integrating SDRT within continuation style semantics of the sort developed in [17].