{"pk":30498,"title":"A Theory of Discourse Structure","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this talk I will present the basic elements of a computational theory of discourse\nstructure.^ A proper account of discourse structure is needed both as the basis of an\naccount of discourse meaning (a semantic task) and to underlie a model of discourse\nprocessing. It provides the former by specifying the basic units a discourse comprises and\nthe ways in which they can relate. It plays a key role in discourse processing by\nstipulating constraints on those portions of a discourse to which any given utterance in\nthe discourse must be related.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Presented Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bd4v4z9","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Barbara","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Grosz","name_suffix":"","institution":"SRI International","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1986-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30498/galley/20347/download/"}]}