Information-based processing of Korean dialogue with reference to English
This thesis shows that making use of contextual information coming from an utterance and keeping track of information flow between utterances in dialogue are indispensable to the processing of dialogue. In English, the phenomenon of honorification does not occur, an honorific pronoun does not exist, and a pronoun is used instead of omitting a whole constituent. On the other hand, in Korean dialogue, every utterance indicates whether or not honorification occurs. In addition, an honorific pronoun may be used and a constituent such as the subject NP or the object NP is omitted when it can be recovered by context. We claim that in order to process Korean dialogue properly, we must systematically use contextual information such as the social status information about all the individuals involved in dialogue and information about dialogue participants (that is, the speaker and the addressee of utterances). It is possible to incorporate contextual information in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and thus we use that framework to deal with utterances occurring in dialogue. We construct the representation structure of dialogue by extending and modifying Discourse Representation Theory (DRT)
Lee, Dong-Young
Information-based processing of Korean dialogue with reference to English. This thesis shows that making use of contextual information coming from an utterance and keeping track of information flow between utterances in dialogue are indispensable to the processing of dialogue. In English, the phenomenon of honorification does not occur, an honorific pronoun does not exist, and a pronoun is used instead of omitting a whole constituent. On the other hand, in Korean dialogue, every utterance indicates whether or not honorification occurs. In addition, an honorific pronoun may be used and a constituent such as the subject NP or the object NP is omitted when it can be recovered by context. We claim that in order to process Korean dialogue properly, we must systematically use contextual information such as the social status information about all the individuals involved in dialogue and information about dialogue participants (that is, the speaker and the addressee of utterances). It is possible to incorporate contextual information in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and thus we use that framework to deal with utterances occurring in dialogue. We construct the representation structure of dialogue by extending and modifying Discourse Representation Theory (DRT)
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