Pronominal Reference in Thai, Burmese, and Vietnamese

A Computational Mechanism for Pronominal Reference

the syntactically impossible antecedents. This latter This paper describes an implemented mechanism for handling bound anaphora, disjoint reference, and pronominal reference. The algorithm maps over every node in a parse tree in a left-to-right, depth first manner. Forward and backwards coreference, and disjoint reference are assigned during this tree walk. A semantic interpretation procedure i...

Resolving Pronominal Reference to Abstract Entities

Centering and Pronominal Reference: In Dialogue, In Spanish

This paper describes an application of Centering Theory (Grosz et al. 1995) to dialogue in Spanish. Centering is a theory of local focus and local discourse coherence. It also relates focus in discourse to choice of referring expression. In this paper, I discuss the analysis of nine task-oriented conversations. The main aim of the paper is to establish links between transition type and choice o...

Conceptual locations and pronominal reference in American Sign Language.

We report the results of an experiment investigating the ramifications of using space to express coreference in American Sign Language (ASL). Nominals in ASL can be associated with locations in signing space, and pronouns are directed toward those locations to convey coreference. A probe recognition technique was used to investigate the case of "locus doubling" in which a single referent is ass...

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