COLING 1990 Volume 3: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics


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The hierarchy of salience of the items of the knowledge assumed by the speaker to be shared by him and by the hearer constitutes one aspect of a dynamic account of discourse (Sect. 1). It is claimed that a representation of this hierarchy is a good support for discourse analysis (reference assignement , Sect. 2) and for discourse production (pronominalization, definite description, Sect. 3).