Nonlinguistic aspects of linguistic contexts

Margherita Benzi, Carlo Penco

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Abstract

Our paper works on a proposal recently put forward by Hunter, Asher and Lascarides (2018) on the use of events in discourse context. We basically accept their view and their proposal of using events as explanation in discourse context. However we think that a stricter connection with demonstrations and causal reasoning in everyday conversation is a necessary step in a coherent view of discourse context. We will not deal with any particular formalism, but only with the general problem of taking into account some elements that may simplify or explain what is taken for granted in some steps of our inferences. A central concept used in these setting is the concept of “explanation” as a way to give coherence to the discourse context. This kind of explanation is also based, besides elements of a general encyclopedic knowledge, on default assumptions derived by the ontology present in the lexicon as Asher (2011) has abundantly shown. However, the steps to recover such coherence would gain clarity with a better specification of causal explanation and with a more precise account of the relation between demonstrative and demonstrations in discourse context. On these two aspects we give some suggestions.

Lingua originaleInglese
Titolo della pubblicazione ospiteModeling and Using Context - 11th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2019, Proceedings
EditorGábor Bella, Paolo Bouquet
EditoreSPRINGER
Pagine1-13
Numero di pagine13
ISBN (stampa)9783030349738
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2019
Evento11th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2019 - Trento, Italy
Durata: 20 nov 201922 nov 2019

Serie di pubblicazioni

NomeLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11939 LNAI
ISSN (stampa)0302-9743
ISSN (elettronico)1611-3349

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Paese/TerritorioItaly
CittàTrento
Periodo20/11/1922/11/19

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