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Publication details [#4775]

Hobbs, Jerry R. 1979. Coherence and coreference. Cognitive Science 3 (1) : 67–90.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | coreference | discourse | inference

Journal WWW

www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/10/15/15/show/

Annotation

In this paper, formal definitions are given for several coherence relations in conversation and in texts, based on the operations of an inference system. That is, the relations between successive portions of a discourse are characterized in terms of the inferences that can be drawn from each.