Anaphora Resolution

Anaphora resolution has proven to be a very difficult problem; it requires the integrated application of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic knowledge. This paper examines the hypothesis that instead of attempting …...

AbstractIBM is engaged in advanced research and development projects on various aspects of machine translation, between several language pairs. The activities reported on hero are all parts of a rather …...

Anaphoric reference is an important linguistic phe- nomenon to understand the discourse structure and content. In Chinese natural language processing, there are both the problems of choosing and resolv- ing …...

The paper develops further the idea of using the notion of the stock of shared knowledge (SSK) for anaphora resolution following a more subtle treatment of the influence of the …...

An analysis of the evolution of Natu- ral Language front ends in the last three decades shows that the growth in portabil- ity brought, as a side effect, the narrow- …...

Both anaphora resolution and preposi- tional phrase (PP) attachment are the most frequent ambiguities in natural lan- guage processing. Several methods have been proposed to deal with each phe- nomenon …...

We provide a unified account of sentence-level and text-level anaphora within the framework of a dependency-based grammar model. Criteria for anaphora resolution within sentence boundaries rephrase major concepts from GB's …...

We present an approach to anaphora resolution based on a focusing algorithm, and implemented within an existing MUC (Message Understand- ing Conference) Information Extraction system, allowing quantitative evaluation against a …...

This paper describes an architecture for performing anaphora resolution in a flexible way. Systems which con- form to these guidelines are well- encapsulated and portable, and can be used to …...

Anaphora,. an important indicator in lexical cohesion, is a discourse level linguistic phenomenon. Most theoretical linguistic approaches to the interpretation of anaphoric expressions propose a treatment on the basis of …...

Our system for the SENSEVAL-2 all words task uses automatically acquired selectional prefer- ences to sense tag subject and object head nouns, along with the associated verbal pred- icates. The …...

In this paper we argue that comparative evaluation in anaphora resolution has to be performed using the same pre-processing tools and on the same set of data. The paper proposes …...

The paper presents an approach to ellipsis resolution in a framework of scope under- specification (Underspecified Discourse Representation Theory). It is argued that the approach improves on previous pro- posals …...

Anaphora is a common phenomenon in discourses as well as an important research issue in the applications of natural language processing. In this paper, the anaphora resolution is achieved by …...

In this paper we describe a method of automati- cally learning domain theories from parsed cor- pora of sentences from the relevant domain and use FSA techniques for the graphical …...

. Anaphora resolution is one of essential tasks in message understanding. In this paper resolution for pronominal and sortal anaphora, which are common in biomedical texts, is addressed. The resolution …...

Anaphora in Texts and Dialogues Costanza Navarretta Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen Njalsgade 80 2300 Copenhagen S costanza@cst.dk Abstract This paper describes an extension of the dar-algorithm (Navarretta, 2004) …...

This paper proposes an other-anaphora resolution approach in bio-medical texts. It utilizes automatically mined patterns to discover the semantic relation between an anaphor and a candidate antecedent. The knowledge from …...

. We investigate a machine learning approach to Portuguese pronoun resolution. We presently focus on so-called ‘low-cost’ learning features readily obtainable from the output of a part-of-speech tagger, and we …...

AbstractIn recent years we have resgitered a renewed interest in event detection and temporal processing of text/discourse. TimeML (Pustejovsky et al., 2003a) has shed new lights on the notion of …...

. In this paper, we propose a method for anaphora resolution in speech under- standing for a livelihood support robot. For robust speech recognition, we combine two types of speech …...

Definite Anaphora in Chinese Texts Tyne Liang∗ and Jyun-Hua Cheng∗ Abstract Anaphora is a rhetorical device commonly used in written texts. It denotes the use of terms referring to previously-mentioned …...

AbstractThis paper presents QurAna: a large corpus created from the original Quranic text, where personal pronouns are tagged with their antecedence. These antecedents are maintained as an ontological list of …...

AbstractIn this paper we analyze the effectiveness of using linguistic knowledge from coreference and anaphora resolution for improving the performance for supervised keyphrase extraction. In order to verify the impact …...

Anaphora resolution is a complex process in which multiple linguistic factors play a role, and this is witnessed by a large psycholinguistic literature. This literature is based on experiments with …...

Commonsense knowledge plays an essential role in our language activities. Although many projects have aimed to develop language resources for commonsense knowledge, there is little work focusing on connotational meanings. …...

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Modeling anaphora resolution is critical for proper pronoun translation in neural machine translation. Recently it has been addressed by context-aware models with varying success. In this work, we pro- pose …...

AbstractAnaphora resolution (coreference) systems designed for the CONLL 2012 dataset typically cannot handle key aspects of the full anaphora resolution task such as the identification of singletons and of certain …...

This paper presents WORDGUESS, a game- with-a-purpose vocabulary training where –in order to guess a target word (such as snow)– the player is offered associations of that tar- get word …...

AbstractThe Winograd Schema Challenge (WSC) consists of a set of anaphora resolution problems resolvable only by reasoning about world knowledge. This article describes the update of the existing French data …...