Abstract
To model conditionals in a way that reflects their acceptability, we must include some means of making judgements about whether antecedent and consequent are meaningfully related or not. Enthymemes are non-logical arguments which do not hold up by themselves, but are acceptable through their relation to a topos, an already-known general principle or pattern for reasoning. This paper uses enthymemes and topoi as a way to model the world-knowledge behind these judgements. In doing so, it provides a reformalisation (in TTR) of enthymemes and topoi as networks rather than functions, and information state update rules for conditionals.- Anthology ID:
- S19-1018
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2019)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Venue:
- *SEM
- SIGs:
- SIGSEM | SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 168–177
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/S19-1018
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/S19-1018
- Cite (ACL):
- Eimear Maguire. 2019. Enthymemetic Conditionals. In Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2019), pages 168–177, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Enthymemetic Conditionals (Maguire, *SEM 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/starsem-semeval-split/S19-1018.pdf