Maxime Amblard

This present book explores recent advances in modeling discourse processes, in particular, new approaches aimed at understanding pathological language behavior specific to schizophrenia. The contributors examine the modeling paradigm of formal semantics, which falls within the scope of both linguistics and logic while providing overlapping links with other fields such as philosophy of language and cognitive psychology. This book is based on results presented during the series of workshops on Coherence and Discourse organized by SLAM, a project developed to systemize the study of pathological language processing by taking an overarching interdisciplinary approach combining psychology, linguistics, computer science and philosophy. The principle focus is on conversations produced by people with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and autism. The contributions come from young and experienced researchers, and invited speakers. The book appeals to likeminded students and researchers.

In this paper, we present a formal approach to the compositional processing of questions and answers presented in the corpus SLAM-Schizophrenia and Language: Analysis and Modeling, 91115, 2015). In particular, we want to address issues surrounding dialogue lexicality by beginning with definitions as formalized in the framework of Düsseldorf Frame Semantics presented in Kallmeyer and Osswald, 267330, 2014). We then introduce a view of dialogue that emerges from compositions of negotiation phases that may be studied as separate elements while remaining linked by a common dialogue context. Finally, we produce an analysis of English and French interrogative words toward an operationalization of our model for real-life data.