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Resolving ellipsis in clarification

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Jonathan Ginzburg,

Robin CooperAuthors Info & Claims

ACL '01: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 236 - 243

https://doi.org/10.3115/1073012.1073043

Published: 06 July 2001 Publication History

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We offer a computational analysis of the resolution of ellipsis in certain cases of dialogue clarification. We show that this goes beyond standard techniques used in anaphora and ellipsis resolution and requires operations on highly structured, linguistically heterogeneous representations. We characterize these operations and the representations on which they operate. We offer an analysis couched in a version of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar combined with a theory of information states (IS) in dialogue. We sketch an algorithm for the process of utterance integration in ISs which leads to grounding or clarification.

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Kato MWhite RTeevan JDumais SMackay WBrewster SBødker S(2013)Clarifications and question specificity in synchronous social Q&ACHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2468356.2468519(913-918)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2013
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Dapoigny RBarlatier P(2013)Formal foundations for situation awareness based on dependent type theoryInformation Fusion10.1016/j.inffus.2012.02.00614:1(87-107)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2013
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Rieser VMoore JKnight K(2005)Implications for generating clarification requests in task-oriented dialoguesProceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/1219840.1219870(239-246)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2005
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Ginzburg JFernández RKnight K(2005)Scaling up from dialogue to multilogueProceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/1219840.1219869(231-238)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2005
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Purver MJokinen KMcRoy S(2002)Processing unknown words in a dialogue systemProceedings of the 3rd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and dialogue - Volume 210.3115/1118121.1118143(174-183)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2002
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