A uniform treatment of pragmatic inferences in simple and complex utterances and sequences of utterances. Marcu, D. & Hirst, G. In Proceedings, 33rd Annual Meeting, Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 144–150, Cambridge, MA, June, 1995.
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Drawing appropriate defeasible inferences has been proven to be one of the most pervasive puzzles of natural language processing and a recurrent problem in pragmatics. This paper provides a theoretical framework, called stratified logic, that can accommodate defeasible pragmatic inferences. The framework yields an algorithm that computes the conversational, conventional, scalar, clausal, and normal state implicatures; and the presuppositions that are associated with utterances. The algorithm applies equally to simple and complex utterances and sequences of utterances.
@InProceedings{	  marcu16,
  author	= {Daniel Marcu and Graeme Hirst},
  title		= {A uniform treatment of pragmatic inferences in simple and
		  complex utterances and sequences of utterances},
  booktitle	= {Proceedings, 33rd Annual Meeting, Association for
		  Computational Linguistics},
  address	= {Cambridge, MA},
  month		= {June},
  year		= {1995},
  pages		= {144--150},
  abstract	= {Drawing appropriate defeasible inferences has been proven
		  to be one of the most pervasive puzzles of natural language
		  processing and a recurrent problem in pragmatics. This
		  paper provides a theoretical framework, called stratified
		  logic, that can accommodate defeasible pragmatic
		  inferences. The framework yields an algorithm that computes
		  the conversational, conventional, scalar, clausal, and
		  normal state implicatures; and the presuppositions that are
		  associated with utterances. The algorithm applies equally
		  to simple and complex utterances and sequences of
		  utterances.},
  download	= {http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Marcu+Hirst-acl-95.ps}
}

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