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Publication details [#4234]

Hajičová, Eva and Jarka Vrbova. 1982. On the role of the hierarchy of activation in the process of natural language understanding. In Horecký, Ján, ed. Coling 82. Proceedings of the ninth international conference on computational linguistics, Prague, July 5-10, 1982. North-Holland. pp. 107–113.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

mutual knowledge | reference, comprehension of | saliency | text, comprehension of

Annotation

A proposal for a mechanism for the identification of reference as a necessary prerequisite of an automatic understanding of connected texts. The mechanism is based on a saliency hierarchy with respect to shared knowledge of the speaker and hearer and its immediate accessibility to the hearer.