DiaP A Dialogue Parser using Segmented Discourse Representation Theory
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Segmented Discourse Representation Theory or SDRT (Asher & Lascarides, 2003) has gained much attention in recent years as one of the most formally precise and linguistically grounded accounts of discourse and dialogue interpretation. Using underspecified dynamic semantics along with a special logic for extracting information, SDRT builds a structured representation of a discourse, governed by Rhetorical Relations (or speech acts). The highly complex interaction of modular levels, using different logics, makes the thorough empirical testing of any theory quite difficult without the assistance of a computer. I present here an ongoing work on implementing a discourse and dialogue parser using SDRT. The program is written in Prolog and is eventually intended to become a discourse and dialogue theory development environment.
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