hi Bob, As you'd expect there is a lot of literature into discourse analysis. I'm sure you're already know about DRT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_representation_theory but you may not have heard of "segmented discourse representation theory <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_discourse_representation_theory>" (SDRT) presented in Asher, Nicholas <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_Asher&action=edit&redlink=1> and Alex Lascarides (2003). *Logics of Conversation <https://books.google.com/books?id=VD-8yisFhBwC>*. Studies in Natural Language Processing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65058-5 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-65058-5> or RST Mann, William C. and Sandra A .Thompson (1988). "Rhetorical Structure Theory <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~nenkova/Courses/cis700-2/rst.pdf>: A theory of text organization". *Text <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_(journal)>* *8*: 243–281. or LDM (Linguistic Discourse Model) e.g. in https://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Eantho/W/W04/W04-0211.pdf, from Livia Polanyi, for example. I thought the Tutorial Discourse Structure: Theory, Practice and Use <http://aclweb.org/anthology/P10-5003>( https://aclanthology.info/papers/P10-5003/p10-5003) would be useful, but I couldn't find its contents online. I don't know much about the area, but I know there are lots more. best, Valeria On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 5:25 PM Bob Coecke <bob.coecke@cs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi all,
This is a request for information from those with knowledge of computational linguistics and related things.
Sentence structure is a long-established field, most notably with major contributions by Lambek, and concerns how words compose within a sentence. How much ( is known / has been done ) in mathematical terms on composing sentences in order to form stories?
Im am working on something, don’t want to re-invent the wheel, and also want to use/credit what has been done before.
Cheers, Bob.
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