Books on Computational Semantics by Patrick Blackburn & Johan Bos |
Working with Discourse Representation Theory |
An advanced Course in Computational Semantics |
Chapter 4. Presupposition Projection. |
What are presuppositions, and how can we solve the projection problem for presupposition? In this chapter we discuss and implement an elegant DRT-based approach to these problems due to Rob van der Sandt. This approach treats presuppositions as anaphors which may accommodate, offering a novel perspective on presupposition projection. In this chapter we show how the pronoun resolution techniques introduced in Chapter 3 can be extended to handle presupposition accommodation.