Centering Theory

Centering Theory is a linguistic framework within discourse processing that models the attentional state of a dialogue or text by identifying the most salient discourse entity—the "center"—and predicting how interlocutors maintain coherence through forward-looking center selection and backward-looking center updating in subsequent utterances.

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2017–2026

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  1. MS
    Michael Strube

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    11 publications · 524 citations

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  2. MB
    Morteza Bahram

    Urmia University, Iran

    7 publications · 462 citations

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  3. AA
    Abbas Afkhami

    Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran

    6 publications · 450 citations

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  4. UH
    Udo Hahn

    Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

    5 publications · 347 citations

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    Massimo Poesio

    University of Essex, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 371 citations

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  1. Computational Linguistics

    7 publications · 552 citations

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  2. ArXiv.org

    Repository · 5 publications · 312 citations

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  3. Journal of Endodontics

    JOE · 5 publications · 183 citations

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  4. Talanta

    5 publications · 329 citations

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