Guhe, Markus, Christopher Habel & Ladina Tschander (2003) Describing motion events: Incremental representations for incremental processing. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS–5), 410–424. Tilburg, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

We demonstrate how a preverbal message (Levelt 1989) is generated from an underlying conceptual representation in an incremental manner. Starting with the conceptual representation of an observed moving object in a very reduced setting, we analyse which conceptual entities are used by the speaker in order to produce an utterance. After presenting the construction of a conceptual representation we go into the details of the criteria used to select conceptual entities for verbalisation and how the incremental generation algorithm works in inC.