Computing Perspective in Dialogue - Computational Linguistics and Talking Robots - page 199

10.4.4 A NSWERER AS HEARER PARSING 10.4.1

What did you write ?

lexical lookup

noun: what verb: v_1 noun: toi verb: write pnc: ?

cat: np3 cat: n' do' v

sem: past
arg:

cat: sp2 cat: n−s3' a' v cat: vi' interrog

fnc:
mdr:
prn:

fnc:
mdr:
prn:

sem: pres
arg:

prn:

prn: prn:

syntactic−semantic parsing

noun: what verb: v_1

cat: n' do' vi cat: np3

1 fnc:

mdr:

sem: past
arg:

prn: 668 prn:

noun: what verb: v_1 noun: toi

cat: sp2

cat: np3 cat: n' do' vi

2 fnc: v_1 sem: past fnc:

mdr:
prn:

mdr: arg: wh?

prn: 668 prn: 668

noun: what verb: v_1 noun: toi verb: write

cat: np3 cat: do' vi cat: sp2 cat: n−s3' a' v

3

fnc: v_1 sem: past fnc: v_1 sem: pres

arg:

mdr: arg: toi wh? mdr:

prn: 668 prn: 668 prn: 668 prn:

noun: what verb: write noun: toi pnc: ?

cat: np3 cat: vi cat: sp2 cat: vi' interrog

4

fnc: write sem: past fnc: write prn:

mdr: arg: toi wh? mdr:

prn: 668 prn: 668 prn: 668

noun: what verb: write noun: toi

result

cat: np3 cat: interrog cat: sp2

fnc: write sem: past fnc: write

mdr: arg: toi wh? mdr:

prn: 668 prn: 668 prn: 668

The result of this strictly time-linear, surface compositional derivation is a
content which represents the perspective of the speaker Simone - except for
the prn value, here 668 , which is assigned by the hearer J.-P.
For understanding, the answerer J.-P. must change Simone's speak mode
perspective into his own hear mode perspective by transforming the content
Toi wrote what? 11 of Simone's question into Moi wrote what? , based on the
following STAR-2.3 inference:

11 The result of a hear mode derivation is a set of proplets, i.e., order-free. In other words, the sets Toi
wrote what? and What wrote toi? are equivalent.