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Interpreting Discourses based on Lexical Semantic Knowledge| old_uid | 4540 |
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| title | Interpreting Discourses based on Lexical Semantic Knowledge |
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| start_date | 2008/04/07 |
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| schedule | 14h30-16h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The aim of this talk is to investigate the enterprise of exploiting lexical semantic knowledge for discourse purposes. In the first part of the paper, I demonstrate that event-based approaches are unable to explain the ambiguous behavior of a whole class of verbs, those called lexical causative verbs in linguistics. Danlos (2000) Asher and Lascarides (2003) present a promising account of lexicalized causation that shows the dependence of verbs on the discourse context and the dependence of discourse inference on lexical knowledge. In the second part of the talk, I use the main tools of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (henceforth SDRT) to deal with the phenomena, improve SDRT’s strategy to deal with lexical knowledge and avoid the previous pitfalls of the usual event-based theories. There are a lot of benefits out of the construction of an interface between both levels of linguistic analysis, namely lexical semantics and discourse semantics and these ideas can also very well be exploited for a system of discourse inference. |
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| oncancel | séance initialement prévue le 3 mars 2008 |
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| responsibles | Information non disponible, Crabbé |
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