Grammars as parsers: Meeting the dialogue challenge

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 289-326

  Purver, Matthew ^a   Cann, Ronnie ^b   Kempson, Ruth ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment; Anaphora; Context; Dynamic syntax; Ellipsis; Generation; Incrementality; Parsing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748758462     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-006-9007-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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