24 March: Special Seminar -- Robin Cooper -- Wednesday, March 30, 4pm, TCD's
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Special Seminar
Wednesday, March 30, 4pm
O'Reilly Large Conference Room, TCD
Phrase structure rules as dialogue update rules
Robin Cooper
University of Gothenburg
Abstract
We present a formulation of phrase structure rules in TTR (Type Theory
with Records (Cooper, 2012)) as dialogue update rules of a similar
kind to those discussed by Ginzburg (2012) and Larsson (2002). This
grounds syntax in a theory of events. Apart from unifying syntax with
a theory of dialogue processing, there are two main advantages to the
proposal: (1) it places constraints on a natural non-abstract theory
of syntax which represents linguistic events as they occur and (2) it
points us to an account of incremental interpretation in terms of the
processing of strings of events in a manner similar to that proposed
by Poesio and Traum (1997) and Poesio and Rieser (2010).
The talk is a version of the paper to be found at
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/Semdial/semdial14.pdf which
was given at the SemDial conference in 2014. A concise account in
context is given in section 3 of my paper with Jonathan Ginzburg in
Lappin and Fox, eds, (2015) The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic
Theory, Second Edition, Wiley Blackwell. A more detailed and
elaborated version of these ideas is to be found in chs 2-3 of a
partial book draft “Type Theory and Language: From Perception to
Linguistic Communication” to be found
on https://sites.google.com/site/typetheorywithrecords/drafts.
Other references:
Robin Cooper. 2012. Type theory and semantics in flux. In Ruth Kempson,
Nicholas Asher, and Tim Fernando, editors, Handbook of the Philosophy
of Science, volume 14: Philosophy of Linguistics, pages 271–323. Elsevier
BV. General editors: Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods.
Jonathan Ginzburg. 2012. The Interactive Stance: Meaning for Conversation.
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Staffan Larsson. 2002. Issue-based Dialogue Management. Ph.D. thesis,
University of Gothenburg.
M. Poesio and H. Rieser. 2010. Completions, coordination, and alignment in
dialogue. Dialogue and Discourse, 1(1):1–89.
M. Poesio and D. Traum. 1997. Conversational actions and discourse
situations. Computational Intelligence, 13(3):309–347.
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