PRONOUN IN FRENCH AND RUSSIAN

Automatic Recognition of French Expletive Pronoun Occurrences

We present a tool, called ILIMP, which takes as input a raw text in French and produces as output the same text in which every occurrence of the pronoun il is tagged either with tag [ANA] for anaphoric or [IMP] for impersonal or expletive. This tool is therefore designed to distinguish between the anaphoric occurrences of il, for which an anaphora resolution system has to look for an antecedent...

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 ...

Cross Language Retrieval - English/Russian/French

A Rule-based Pronoun Resolution System for French

The paper describes a robust pronoun resolution system for French. This system implements a strategy similar to the one used in other implemented systems such as the ones developed by Lappin and Leass (1994) or Mitkov (1998). It also obtains similar results (74.8 % of in-scope pronouns, out of 360, in an unseen corpus are correctly interpreted). We give an overview of the system (general strate...

French Listeners Counting Syllables in Read French and Russian: Implications for the Cognitive Realty of Syllable

This paper examines the question of cognitive status of syllable as a linguistic unit. The experiment was conceived in the objective to test, in a metalinguistic task of counting the syllables, put to French speaking subjects, whether the syllable is a mere methodological concept adopted in linguistic descriptions or whether there is a cognitive reality behind it. Working with filtered stimuli ...