Discourse processing and text representation from a “Mental Models” perspective

1 August 1992

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Language and Cognitive Processes

Vol. 7 (3-4) , 193-204
https://doi.org/10.1080/01690969208409384

Abstract

This paper introduces the topics of discourse representation and text processing from a “mental models” perspective. It outlines the mental models approach to the principal topics discussed in the papers that follow: combinatory semantics, anaphora and inference. Finally, it points to the flexibility of the language-processing system. Some aspects of this flexibility are most naturally described within the mental models framework. Others, however, are purely strategic.

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