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  <Title>Pragmatic Discourse Representation Theory</Title>
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3 Conclusion and Further Extensions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper pushes the treatment of linguistic phenomena in DRT more towards pragmatics, by bringing more pragmatic elements to the semantic/pragmatic interface which is DRT. It has been the aim of this paper to achieve this by (a) expanding DRT structure to incorporate the pragmatic extensions introduced in this paper, (b) representing the complex process of speakers recognizing utterances and using the linguistic information in forming mental representations of hearers' mental representations, (c) enhancing the link between speaker beliefs, and between the linguistic content and the linguistic content and hearer's beliefs and (d) putting all these extensions and enhancements to the pragmatic side of DRT in a computational model.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> While the work presented in this paper offers a more pragmatic approach to DRT, there is still more work to be done on making DRT more pragmatic.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The possibility of extending the present treatment to include more agents remains for future work.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> In addition, future work can employ the intention DRS introduced in this paper, in order to enhance the complexity of the pragmatic representation of speaker/hearer intentions. For instance, embedding turn-taking acts within the intention DRS and relating them to agents' beliefs and intentions should be straightforward. It is also hoped that future work will address more aspects of context than the two detailed and implemented in this paper, namely, the immediate and background context. Furthermore, the sample implementation of the extensions suggested in this paper serves as an example of how the extensions to DRT can be implemented. One way of developing this implementation is to incorporate it into a dialogue system which aims to achieve a more balanced approach to the semantic/pragmatic interface in representing linguistic phenomena.</Paragraph>
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