%0 Journal Article %1 Grosz:1995:CFM:211190.211198 %A Grosz, Barbara J. %A Weinstein, Scott %A Joshi, Aravind K. %C Cambridge, MA, USA %D 1995 %I MIT Press %J Comput. Linguist. %K attention coherence discourse referring_expression %P 203--225 %T Centering: a framework for modeling the local coherence of discourse %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=211190.211198 %V 21 %X This paper concerns relationships among focus of attention, choice of referring expression, and perceived coherence of utterances within a discourse segment. It presents a framework and initial theory of centering intended to model the local component of attentional state. The paper examines interactions between local coherence and choice of referring expressions; it argues that differences in coherence correspond in part to the inference demands made by different types of referring expressions, given a particular attentional state. It demonstrates that the attentional state properties modeled by centering can account for these differences.

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