Henk Zeevat
List of John Benjamins publications in which Henk Zeevat is
involved.
Title
Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium
Edited by Peter Kühnlein, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat
The formal treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue became possible through a series of breakthroughs in foundational methodology. There is broad consensus on a couple of issues, like the fact that some variety of dynamic theory is necessary to capture certain characteristics of… read moreArticles
Zeevat, Henk 2011
Bayesian interpretation and Optimality Theory Bidirectional Optimality Theory, Benz, Anton and Jason Mattausch (eds.), pp. 191–220 | Article The paper explores the consequences of reinterpreting OT pragmatics of Zeevat (2009) as a Bayesian account of natural language interpretation, not unlike Bayesian accounts of vision. In such accounts, a model of the most probable interpretations in the context is combined with a model of NL… read more Zeevat, Henk 2010
Optimal interpretation for rhetorical relations Constraints in Discourse 2, Kühnlein, Peter, Anton Benz and Candace L. Sidner (eds.), pp. 35–60 | Article This paper explores the use of a simple and computational optimality theoretic pragmatics (OT pragmatics, OTP) to the analysis of the rhetorical structure of texts. It introduces this variant of OTP briefly and then shows that it can be applied to explain coherence, rhetorical relations, discourse… read more Kühnlein, Peter, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat 2003
Perspectives on dialogue in the New Millennium Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium, Kühnlein, Peter, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Miscellaneous 
