| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M65656/01 |
| Title: |
FRAGMENTS IN DIALOGUE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Lascarides, Professor A |
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| Department: |
Sch of Informatics |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1999 |
Ends: |
30 September 2002 |
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52,940
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Human Communication in ICT |
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| Creative Industries |
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People frequently produce utterances which aren't complete sentences, such as Next Tuesday , Perhaps on Tuesday and How about Tuesday? . In general, these utterances are comprehensible in the context ofthe dialogue, and their meaning is affected by the words used in the fragment, and the context in which they're uttered. In spite of recent advances in computational semantics, interpreting these so-called fragments is beyond the scope of current natural language processing technology. The aim of this project is to rectify this by doing the following two tasks: (a) provide a linguistically principled and computationally effective theory o the meaning of fragments, which does justice to both grammatical constraints and the ways in which pragmatic information affects their interpretation; and (b) implement the result, and in particular, incorporate the grammatical theory of fragments into an existing wide-coverage on-line grammar, which can be used for both parsing and generation.
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