From nsn Sat Mar 6 22:52:26 2010 From: nsn (Nick Nicholas) Subject: Re: CAFE: cook (& busboy) sketch To: jimc@math.ucla.edu Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 12:21:00 +1000 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Message-ID: The Seraphim surely rejoiced when jimc@math.ucla.edu spoke thus: }> Having passed the cafe material along to my friend Zoe Velonis, she penned }> this. Comments will be passed on to her. }Oooo, shame, shame! Not for the voluptuous purple prose, but for the }organization error in your leader. Who passed it along? *smile* And to think that this is the kind of error I routinely pounce upon in Esperanto text. }By the way, we have words for morphology, syntax and semantics, but }what is the name of the level of language organization at which you }made your error? Since this is clearly(ish) not a sentence-level error, but one relating to a larger text's cohesion (text including context), this is an issue of pragmatics/discourse analysis. I'm studying discourse analysis at the moment, and thinking on lojban while we do it... well, things are subtler than the linguistic traditions which underlie lojban make out. }I have always used the }term "organization" to refer to the phase of assigning referents to }pronouns, and deciding which containing phrase a sub-phrase belongs in, }but I would imagine that this word is much too vague and that there's a }specific word commonly used for it. In what NLP work I've seen, such issues are dealt with under the Discourse Analysis rubric. Deixis, anaphora etc. lie outside syntax and semantics. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nick S. Nicholas, "Rode like foam on the river of pity CogSci & CompSci student, Turned its tide to strength University of Melbourne, Australia. Healed the hole that ripped in living" nsn@{munagin.ee|mundil.cs}.mu.oz.au - Suzanne Vega, Book Of Dreams ______________________________________________________________________________