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Speaking One’s Mind

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2003)

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Aspectual adverbs serve to create temporally coherent contexts. When prosodically marked by high pitch accents, they modify factual information while making direct reference to epistemic states of the agent regarding the actual or expected flow of events. Dynamic inferences background the agent’s epistemic state, while adding new temporal information about events. In dialogue or multi agent settings this triangulation process serves to create common ground, to adjust plans after change in context and constrain the accommodation of presuppositions.

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  1. Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Alice G. B. ter Meulen

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  1. INRIA Lorraine, 615, rue du Jardin Botanique, 54602, Villers les Nancy Cedex, France

    Patrick Blackburn

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Chadwick Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK

    Chiara Ghidini

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 5752 Neville Hall, Orono, ME, 04469-5752, USA

    Roy M. Turner

  4. Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, 38050, Povo, Trento, Italy

    Fausto Giunchiglia

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ter Meulen, A.G.B. (2003). Speaking One’s Mind. In: Blackburn, P., Ghidini, C., Turner, R.M., Giunchiglia, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2680. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44958-2_44

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