This edited collection of previously unpublished papers focuses on Centering Theory, an account of local discourse structure. Developed in the context of computational linguistics and cognitive science, Centering theory has attracted the attention of an international interdisciplinary audience. As the authors focus on naturally occurring data, they join the general trend towards empiricism in research on computational models of discourse, providing a significant contribution to a fast-moving field.
1. Introduction,Marilyn Walker, Aravind Joshi, and Ellen Prince PART I. GOALS OF CENTERING 2. Formal Systems for Complexity and Control of Inference: A Reprise and Some Hints,Aravind Joshi and Scott Weinstein 3. Lost Intuitions and Forgotten Intentions,Barbara Grosz and Candy Sidner PART II. UTTERANCE-LEVEL ISSUES IN CENTERING 4. Ranking Forward-Looking Centers,Sharon Cote 5. Control and Event Structure: The View from the Center,Susan Hudson-D'Zmura 6. Intrasentential Centering: A Case Study,Megumi Kameyama PART III. CENTERING AS A CROSS-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSAL 7. Centering in Italian,Barbara Di Eugenio 8. Ranking Forward-Looking Centers in Turkish: Universal and Language-Specific Properties,Umit Deniz Turan 9. Discourse Coherence and Shifting Centers in Japanese Texts,Masayo Iida PART IV. THE ROLE OF CENTERING IN PROCESSING MODELS OF DISCOURSE 10. Centering Theory and the Givenness Hierarchy: Towards a Synthesis,Jeanette Gundel 11. Assigning Antecedents to Ambiguous Pronouns: The Role of the Center of Attention as the Default Assignment,Susan Hudson-D'Zmura and Michael K. Tanenhaus 12. Centering as a Psychological Resource for Achieving Joint Reference in Spontaneous Discourse,Susan E. Brennan PART V. INFORMATION STRUCTURE AND CENTERING
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