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Syntactic Form and Discourse Function in Natural Language Generation

Syntactic Form and Discourse Function in Natural Language Generation

Creswell, Cassandre

Hardcover

Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0415971047
ISBN13: 9780415971041
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 22 2004
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Users of natural languages have many word orders with which to encode the same truth-conditional meaning. They choose contextually appropriate strings from these many ways with little conscious effort and with effective communicative results. Previous computational models of when English speakers produce non-canonical word orders, like topicalization, left-dislocation and clefts, fail. The primary goal of this book is to present a better model of when speakers choose to produce certain non-canonical word orders by incorporating the effects of discourse context and speaker goals on syntactic choice. This book makes extensive use of previously unexamined naturally occurring corpus data of non-canonical word order in English, both to illustrate the points of the theoretical model and to train the statistical model.

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