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Documents as text-linguistic entities

  1. Pragmatics

    1. Speech/text act conventions (roles, interaction)
    2. Speech/text act intentions (deontic, epistemic, other functions of language)
    3. Channel/modality
    4. Commitment, sincerity, trust, accuracy, success
  2. Semantics
    1. Objects and denotations
    2. Properties and predicates, relations
    3. Propositions, truth functions, truth values
  3. Syntax: analogy ID-LP distinction in syntax theory:

    1. ID: Class, part, and dependency relations over document objects
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    2. LP: Interpretation I: map into general temporal and spatial model for document objects
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    3. SURFACE: Interpretation II: map into spatio-temporal co-ordinate model -- text, graphics, speech, music, keyboard, mouse, ...
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Dafydd Gibbon, Sat Oct 17 18:58:17 CEST 1998