Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics
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To appear in Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward (eds.) Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics Dan Jurafsky 1 Introduction These days theres a computational version of everything. Computational biology, computational musicology, computational archaeology, and so on, ad infinitum. Even movies are going digital. This chapter, as you might have guessed by now, thus explores the computational side of pragmatics. Computational pragmatics might be defined as the computational study of the relation between utterances and context. Like other kinds of pragmatics, this means that computational pragmatics is concerned with indexicality, with the relation between utterances and action, with the relation between utterances and discourse, and with the relationship between utterances and the place, time, and environmental context of their being uttered. As Bunt and Black (2000) point out, computational pragmatics, like pragmatics in general, is especially concerned with I N F E R E N C E. Four core inferential problems in pragmatics Ebook Relate: computational ebook pragmatics ebook utterances ebook relation ebook concerned ebook between utterances ebook utterances and ebook with the ebook relation between ebook relation between utterances ebook the relation between ebook |
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