Centering, Anaphora Resolution, and Discourse Structure

Functional Centering - Grounding Referential Coherence in Information Structure

Considering empirical evidence from a free-word-order language (German) we propose a revision of the principles guiding the ordering of discourse entities in the forward-looking center list within the centering model. We claim that grammatical role criteria should be replaced by criteria that reflect the functional information structure of the utterances. These new criteria are based on the dis...

MPhil in Computer Speech and Language Processing Language Essay: Discourse and Dialogue Centering Theory and its Role in Anaphora Resolution

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Centering was formulated as a model of the relationship between attentional state, the form of referring expressions, and the coherence of an utterance within a discourse segment (Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein, 1986; Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein, 1995). In this chapter, I argue that the restriction of centering to operating within a discourse segment should be abandoned in order to integrate centeri...

Zero Pronoun Resolution in Thai: A Centering Approach

Since pronouns can be dropped in Thai, a natural language processing system for Thai must be able to resolve referents of the missing pronouns. One of several approaches that have been used for reference resolution is Centering Theory. Centering Theory is a focusing process in which salience of discourse entities is being kept track of. Referents of pronouns or zero pronouns are usually entitie...

On the Discourse Analysis in Korean Dialogues

The purpose of the paper is twofold. First, we revise the well-known Centering Theory of anaphora resolution and propose the Controlled Information Packaging Theory (CIPT, for short). Second, we suggest a solution to the resolution of the antecedents of pronouns within the framework of CIPT. For this purpose, we select a dialogue of hotel reservation as a domain-restricted discourse, and discus...