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Computing parallelism in Discourse
Author: Claire Gardent and Michael KohlhaseEditor:
Although much has been said about parallelism in
discourse, a formal, computational theory of parallelism
structure is still outstanding. In this paper, we present a
theory which given two parallel utterances predicts which are the
parallel elements. The theory consists of a sorted, higher-order
abductive calculus and we show that it reconciles the insights of
discourse theories of parallelism with those of Higher-Order
Unification approaches to discourse semantics, thereby providing
a natural framework in which to capture the effect of parallelism
on discourse semantics.
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