Today every bien pensant email signature displays the politics of third-person pronoun, but arguably those first-person plural run deeper. The need to decide who ‘we’ are arises at point formation any effectual group, and this makes it a precondition political speech as such. You won't get far without an ‘us’. Of course, is large question for sociology philosophy, not reducible merely lexical t...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a general approach for summarizing the meaning of Vietnamese paragraphs based on simple two-sentences. The studied objects are paragraphs having the common characteristics: the first sentence has one or two nouns indicating human objects; the second sentence has one or two anaphoric pronouns. We only consider two types of Vietnamese human pronouns in th...

Lebanese Arabic allows the use of optional 1st and 2nd person dative pronouns. These are pronouns embedded in sentences without being linked to any participant roles. Their task is to express a positive or negative attitude toward the events depicted in utterances. In this paper, I present examples of such pronouns as used in gossip constructions. I show that these pronouns allow the speaker to...

Pronoun interpretation in English has been demonstrated to be sensitive to an interaction between grammatical and pragmatically-driven factors. This study investigated the interpretation of pronouns in Japanese, which has both null and overt forms. Thirty-two native speakers of Japanese participated in a passage completion experiment with transfer-of-possession contexts, varying prompt type, as...

We report the first study on pronoun use by an under-studied research population, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exposed to American Sign Language from birth by their deaf parents. Personal pronouns cause difficulties for hearing children with ASD, who sometimes reverse or avoid them. Unlike speech pronouns, sign pronouns are indexical points to self and other. Despite this transp...

We propose an unsupervised probabilistic model for zero pronoun resolution. To our knowledge, this is the first such model that (1) is trained on zero pronouns in an unsupervised manner; (2) jointly identifies and resolves anaphoric zero pronouns; and (3) exploits discourse information provided by a salience model. Experiments demonstrate that our unsupervised model significantly outperforms it...

Japanese dialogue containing zero pronouns is analyzed for the purpose of automatic Japanese-Engl ish conversation translation. Topic-driven Discourse Structure is formalized which ident i f ies ma in ly non -human zero pronouns as a by-product. Other zero pronouns are handled us ing cogni t ive and soc io l ingu i s t i c i n fo rma t ion in honorific, deictic, speech-act and mental predicates...