Discourse relation

A discourse relation (or rhetorical relation) is a description of how two segments of discourse are logically connected to one another.

One method of modeling discourse involves a set of concepts that constitute "segmented discourse representation theory" (SDRT).

SDRT

Asher and Lascarides categorize the discourse relations formalized in SDRT into five classes.

Content-level relations

Text structuring relations

Divergent relations

Metatalk relations
  • Consequence*(α,β)[1]
  • Explanation*(α,β)[1]
  • Explanation*q(α,β)[1]
  • Result*(α,β)[1]
gollark: Your type now contains 9 bits of information.
gollark: Too bad, I added logarithms.
gollark: Well, there are 0 possible states for ! because it can never exist, and log 0 is undefined. QED. Bees apiforms.
gollark: So the information content is just the logarithm of the possible state count?
gollark: Yes.

See also

Notes and references
  1. Asher and Lascarides (2003): 333

Bibliography
  • Asher, Nicholas and Alex Lascarides (2003). Logics of Conversation. Studies in Natural Language Processing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65058-5
  • Pitler, Emily and others (2008). "Easily Identifiable Discourse Relations". University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-08-24.
  • Grosz, Barbara J. and Candice L. Sidner (1986). "Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse". Computational Linguistics 12: 175–204. [aka DSM]
  • Alistair Knott, 'An Algorithmic Framework for Specifying the Semantics of Discourse Relations', Computational Intelligence 16 (2000).
  • Mann, William C. and Sandra A .Thompson (1988). "Rhetorical Structure Theory: A theory of text organization". Text 8: 243–281. [aka RST]



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