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...

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...

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...

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...

This paper presents a new rule-based method to identify Spanish zero pronouns. The paper describes the comparative evaluation of a baseline method for the identification of zero pronouns with an approach that supplements the baseline by adding a set of restrictions treating impersonal sentences and other zero subject expressions. The identification rules have been tested on a new corpus in whic...

This paper presents the results of a comparative text analysis of English anaphoric pronouns & their Japanese counterparts. It first demonstrates that although anaphoric pronouns in English are often compared to zero pronominals in Japanese, not all, but only some, of the English anaphoric pronouns have their counterparts in zero pronominals in the same context in Japanese, and then argues that...

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