Gender Marking and Clitic Pronoun Resolution in Simultaneous Bilingual Children

Using bilingual corpora to improve pronoun resolution

Co-occurrence patterns act as an important factor (collocation preference) in anaphora resolution which have been successfully exploited in several projects (Dagan and Itai 1990, 1991; Mitkov 1998), but unfortunately information on general co-occurrence patterns may not be widely available. An alternative would be to exploit collocations within the document(s) under consideration (Nasukawa 1994...

Chinese Overt Pronoun Resolution: A Bilingual Approach

Bilingual Pronoun Resolution: Experiments in English and French

Anaphora resolution has been a subject of research in computational linguistics for more than 25 years. The interest it aroused was due to the importance that anaphoric phenomena play in the coherence and cohesiveness of natural language. A deep understanding of a text is impossible without knowledge about how individual concepts relate to each other; a shallow understanding of a text is often ...

Clitic doubling and differential object marking

This work follows the progression of a grammatical construction that unifies the Romanian accusative preposition pe with a coreferential pronominal clitic, together forming the cd-pe construction. On the basis of historical texts, it is argued that these two grammatical phenomena evolved into a clause-level construction with a dedicated semantics and pragmatics in the modern language. A corpus ...

Syntax-driven bindings of Spanish clitic pronoun

In this paper we present an analysis of the relationship between the Spanish clitic pronoun system and the Binding Theory. Spanish clitic pronouns have a dual behaviour; in the proclitic case, they behave like independent lexical units, hence proper clitic, but on the enclitic case they are hence morphological affixes (i.e. inflexions). In the first case, the clitics stand for pronouns, therefo...