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arxiv: cmp-lg/9508001 · v1 · submitted 1995-08-02 · cmp-lg · cs.CL

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Bridging as Coercive Accommodation

Johan Bos (University of the Saarland , Germany) , Paul Buitelaar (Brandeis University , USA) , Anne-Marie Mineur (University of the Saarland
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keywords discoursereferentsbridgingestablishedtheoryaccommodatedaccommodationaccount
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In this paper we discuss the notion of "bridging" in Discourse Representation Theory as a tool to account for discourse referents that have only been established implicitly, through the lexical semantics of other referents. In doing so, we use ideas from Generative Lexicon theory, to introduce antecedents for anaphoric expressions that cannot be "linked" to a proper antecedent, but that do not need to be "accommodated" because they have some connection to the network of discourse referents that is already established.

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