<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<Paper uid="P97-1012">
  <Title>Expectations in Incremental Discourse Processing</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="94" end_page="94" type="evalu">
    <SectionTitle>
5 Speculations and Conclusions
</SectionTitle>
    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we have focussed on discourse expectations associated with forward-looking clausal connectives, sentential adverbs and the imperative verbs (&amp;quot;suppose&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;consider&amp;quot;). There is clearly more to be done, including a more complete characterization of the phenomenon and development of an incremental discourse processor based on the ideas presented above. The latter would, we believe, have to be coupled with incremental sentence-level processing. As the previous examples have shown, the same phenomenon that occurs inter-sententially in Examples 1-3 occurs intra-sententially in Examples 4 and 6, suggesting that the two processors may be based on identical principles. In addition, carrying out sentence-level processing in parallel with discourse processing and allowing each to inform the other would allow co-reference interpretation to follow from decisions about discourse relations and vice versa.</Paragraph>
  </Section>
class="xml-element"></Paper>