5 papers
Probabilistic Coreference in Information Extraction
Andrew Kehler
Certain applications require that the output of an information extraction system be probabilistic, so that a downstream system can reliably fuse the output with possibly contradict…
A Theory of Parallelism and the Case of VP Ellipsis
Jerry R. Hobbs, Andrew Kehler
We provide a general account of parallelism in discourse, and apply it to the special case of resolving possible readings for instances of VP ellipsis. We show how several problema…
The Semantics of Resource Sharing in Lexical-Functional Grammar
Andrew Kehler, Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping +1
We argue that the resource sharing that is commonly manifest in semantic accounts of coordination is instead appropriately handled in terms of structure-sharing in LFG f-structures…
Common Topics and Coherent Situations: Interpreting Ellipsis in the Context of Discourse Inference
Andrew Kehler
It is claimed that a variety of facts concerning ellipsis, event reference, and interclausal coherence can be explained by two features of the linguistic form in question: (1) whet…
Temporal Relations: Reference or Discourse Coherence?
Andrew Kehler
The temporal relations that hold between events described by successive utterances are often left implicit or underspecified. We address the role of two phenomena with respect to t…