Temporal Contexts for Discourse Representation: An Extension of the Conceptual Graph Approach

摘要

A discourse is composed of a sequence of sentences that must be interpreted with respect to the context in which they are uttered and to the actions that produce them: locutors' speech acts. The analysis of discourse content must be based on a pragmatic approach to the study of language in use. Some of the most obvious linguistic elements that require contextual information for their representation are deictic forms such as here, now, I, you, this , and verb tenses.