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Computing Perspective in Dialogue

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A computational reconstruction of dialogue requires not only an analysis of language expressions, but of utterances. In DBS, an utterance is defined as (i) a propositional content and (ii) a cluster of four pointers called STAR.1 The STAR serves to anchor a content to the interpretation’s parameter values of Space, Time, Agent, and Recipient. The STAR also provides the referents for a certain kind of sign in natural language, namely the indexical.

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Hausser, R. (2011). Computing Perspective in Dialogue. In: Computational Linguistics and Talking Robots. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22432-4_10

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