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An Approach to Anaphora Based on Mental Models

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2001)

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Structural approaches to anaphora try to solve it at the level of the formal language used for representing the meaning of sentences. But we believe that it must be approached by referring to the extension of the sentences. In this paper, we show that Johnson-Laird’s Mental Models provide an adequate tool for coping with extensional representations and anaphora in a cognitively plausible way.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica and Centro di Scienza Cognitiva, Universitá di Torino, Cso Svizzera 185, 10149, Torino, Italy

    Guido Boella & Leonardo Lesmo

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  1. Guido Boella
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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, 06533, Turkey

    Varol Akman

  2. Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, 38100, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Bouquet

  3. Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, 2251 Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1003, USA

    Richmond Thomason

  4. Philosophy Department, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK

    Roger Young

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Boella, G., Lesmo, L. (2001). An Approach to Anaphora Based on Mental Models. In: Akman, V., Bouquet, P., Thomason, R., Young, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44607-9_32

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