Taxonomy of Given-New Information

Warm up Question: What do we study for this course?

• Natural Language Processing(NLP)

• Semantics and Pragmatics

• Basketball

• Morphology and Syntax

According to the three givenness the author summarized, which type of givenness best describes the NP in bold?

ø Wanna fight?

• Predictability/Recoverability

• Saliency

• "Shared Knowledge"

• "Assumed Familiarity"

According to the three givenness the author summarized, which type of givenness best describes the NP in bold?

[Two students talking after Super Bowl of the year]

Did you watch the half time show?

• Predictability/Recoverability

• Saliency

• Shared Knowledge

According to the three givenness the author summarized, which type of givenness best describes the NP in bold?

[Two girls shopping on Pearl Street]

"Let’s go to that shop next."

• Predictability/Recoverability

• Saliency

• Shared Knowledge

According the Taxonomy of discourse entities the author purposed, What is the entity type for "a student from Yale University" in the below conversation?

[At the LING Department Lunch, Eric says to Professor Palmer]

"I met a student from Yale University at the conference..."

• Brand-new

• Brand-new Anchored

• Unused

• Containing Inferrable

• Textually Evoked

According the Taxonomy of discourse entities the author purposed, What is the entity type for "my lost cat" in the below conversation?

[At the LING Department Lunch, Eric says to Ann]

"Hey Ann! Nice seeing you here! Do you remember my lost cat? I found him"

• Brand-new

• Brand-new Anchored

• Unused

• Textually Evoked

• Situationally Evoked

According the Taxonomy of discourse entities the author purposed, What is the entity type for "one bottle of water over there" in the below conversation?

[At the LING Department Lunch, Student A says to Student B]

"Excuse me. Could you pass me one bottle of water over there?"

• Brand-new

• Unused

• Containing Inferrable

• Non-containing Inferrable

• Situationally Evoked

According the Taxonomy of discourse entities the author purposed, What is the entity type for "the author" in the below conversation?

[At the LING Department Lunch, Student A says to Student B]

"I was asked to review a paper but the author seemed not to appreciate my comments..."

• Brand-new

• Brand-new Anchored

• Containing Inferrable

• Non-containing Inferrable

• Situationally Evoked

According the Taxonomy of discourse entities the author purposed, What is the entity type for "Levinson's book" in the below conversation?

[At the LING Department Lunch, Our classmate A talks with our classmate B.]

Our classmate A: "Compared with Levinson's book, I like Saeed's book better."

Our classmate B: "Yeah, Levinson's book is just hard to read..."

• Brand-new

• Brand-new Anchored

• Textually Evoked

• Situationally Evoked

• Non-containing Inferrable