Robbert-Jan Beun
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robbert-Jan Beun is involved.
2001 On the generation of coherent dialogue: A computational approach Pragmatics & Cognition 9:1, pp. 37–68 | Article
A dialogue game is presented that enables us to generate coherent elementary conversational sequences at the speech act level. Central to this approach is the fact that the cognitive states of players change as a result of the interpretation of speech acts and that these changes provoke the… read more
2000 12. Moves in Dialogue The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue II, Taylor, M. Martin, Françoise Néel and Don Bouwhuis (eds.), pp. 239–248 | Article
2000 Context and form: declarative or interrogative, that is the question Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue: Studies in computational pragmatics, Bunt, Harry and William Black (eds.), pp. 311–326 | Article
1998 Object reference in a shared domain of conversation The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences, Kronfeld, Amichai and Lawrence D. Roberts (eds.), pp. 121–152 | Article
In this paper we report on an investigation into the principles underlying the choice of a particular referential expression to refer to an object located in a domain to which both participants in the dialogue have visual as well as physical access. Our approach is based on the assumption that… read more



