Resolving Ellipsis in Clarification

We offer a computational analysis of the resolution of ellipsis in certain cases of dialogue clarification. We show that this goes beyond standard techniques used in anaphora and ellipsis resolution and requires operations on highly structured, linguistically heterogeneous representations. We characterize these operations and the representations on which they operate. We offer an analysis couched in a version of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar combined with a theory of information states (IS) in dialogue. We sketch an algorithm for the process of utterance integration in ISs which leads to grounding or clarification.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper
• Keywords: ACL 2001, ACL 2007, Dialogue Clarification, Ellipsis, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar