Text Plans and World Plans in Natural Discourse

Discourse is both about the world and an accomplishment in the world. This fact has led to two approaches to the study of discourse In artificial intelligence, one investigating" text plans*', the other "world plans". By analyzing a fragment of a narrative in which both kinds of plans figure importantly, we explore the relationship between the two kinds of plans, looking toward a synthesis of the two approaches.

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