Constraints on anaphor movement

The time-course of the application of binding constraints in reference resolution

We report two experiments which examined the role of binding theory in on-line sentence processing. Participants eye movements were recorded while they read short texts which included anaphoric references with reflexive anaphors (himself or herself). In each of the experiments, two characters were introduced into the discourse before the anaphor, and only one of these characters was a grammatic...

Anaphor Resolution and the Scope of Syntactic Constraints

An anal)hor resolution algorithm is presented which relies on a combination of strategies for narrowing down and selecting ti'om antecedent sets fl)r reflexive pronouns, nonreflexive pronom~s, and common 11011118. ~lqle work focuses on syntactic restrictions which are derived froin Chomsky's Binding Theory. It is discussed how these constraints can be incorporated adequately in an anaphor resol...

Constraints and Mechanisms in Theories of Anaphor Processing

A High-Performance Coreference Resolution System using a Constraint-based Multi-Agent Strategy

This paper presents a constraint-based multiagent strategy to coreference resolution of general noun phrases in unrestricted English text. For a given anaphor and all the preceding referring expressions as the antecedent candidates, a common constraint agent is first presented to filter out invalid antecedent candidates using various kinds of general knowledge. Then, according to the type of th...

Contextually Appropriate Reference Generation

We describe a system for contextually appropriate anaphor and pronoun generation for Turkish. It uses Binding Theory and Centering Theory to model local and nonlocal reference. We describe the rules for Turkish, and their computational treatment. A cascaded method for anaphor and pronoun generation is proposed for handling pro-drop and discourse constraints on pronominalization. The system has ...