Presuppositions as beliefs. Horton, D. & Hirst, G. In Proceedings, 12th International conference on computational linguistics (COLING-88), pages 255–260, Budapest, August, 1988. abstract bibtex Most theories of presupposition implicitly assume that presuppositions are facts, and that all agents involved in a discourse share belief in the presuppositions that it generates. These unrealistic assumptions can be eliminated if each presupposition is treated as the belief of an agent. However, it is not enough to consider only the beliefs of the speaker; we show that the beliefs of other agents are often involved. We describe a new model, including an improved definition of presupposition, that treats presuppositions as beliefs and considers the beliefs of all agents involved in the discourse. We show that treating presuppositions as beliefs makes it possible to explain phenomena that cannot be explained otherwise.
@InProceedings{ horton4,
author = {Diane Horton and Graeme Hirst},
title = {Presuppositions as beliefs},
booktitle = {Proceedings, 12th International conference on
computational linguistics (COLING-88)},
address = {Budapest},
month = {August},
year = {1988},
pages = {255--260},
abstract = {<p>Most theories of presupposition implicitly assume that
presuppositions are facts, and that all agents involved in
a discourse share belief in the presuppositions that it
generates. These unrealistic assumptions can be eliminated
if each presupposition is treated as the belief of an
agent. However, it is not enough to consider only the
beliefs of the speaker; we show that the beliefs of other
agents are often involved. We describe a new model,
including an improved definition of presupposition, that
treats presuppositions as beliefs and considers the beliefs
of all agents involved in the discourse. We show that
treating presuppositions as beliefs makes it possible to
explain phenomena that cannot be explained otherwise. </p>},
download = {http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Horton+Hirst-88.pdf}
}
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