Towards a Generalization of Anaphora

Salience, Inference and Plural Anaphora

In this paper, I argue that the DRT Construction Rules for plural antecedents are redundant, because they are subsumed by an inference mechanism that must be made generally available for anaphora resolution. While Kamp and Reyle originally argued against a general inference mechanism for plural anaphora, I argue that the facts of compset anaphora require inference. Furthermore, I observe that c...

Acquisition of English anaphora by Iranian EFL learners

The present study examined the acquisition of anaphora in English by Iranian EFL learners as well as Persian speaking children. To do so, the study was conducted in three phases. In the first phase, 40 intermediate female and male EFL learners were selected from Puyan Institute in Takestan, Iran. Then, an off-line based Grammatical Judgment Task was administered. In the second phase, 40 female ...

Towards a standard for annotating abstract anaphora

This paper presents a survey on the annotation of abstract (= discourse-deictic) anaphora, i.e. anaphora that involves reference to abstract entities such as events and propositions. The survey identifies features that are common to the majority of relevant annotation efforts. Based on these, we propose a small set of recommendations, which can be viewed as a first, small step towards a standar...

Running head: Acquisition of Anaphora by SRNs The Acquisition of Anaphora by Simple Recurrent Networks

This paper describes experiments in applying the Simple Recurrent Network (SRN) architecture (Elman 1991, 1993) to the task of learning the grammatical dependencies involved in re exive and pronominal anaphora. This task requires more re ned sensitivity to grammatical structure than others that have been studied in previous explorations of the language learning capacity of SRNs. When evaluated ...

Towards More Comprehensive Evaluation in Anaphora Resolution