Fllipsis has always been a centre of academic interest, be it in linguistic theory or in computational linguistics. In the present paper, we propose aa ellipsis detection method tbr the Arabic language using the ATN formalism. "llais lbnnalism, which is easy to implement, ullox~ us to construct an etl~cient clause parser to detect ellipses in complex sentence structures. Then, we give a lbnnal ...

In human discourse there is much that is communicated without being explicitly stated. The grammar of natural language provides a broad array of mechanisms for such implicit communication. One example of this is verb phrase ellipsis, in which a verb phrase is elided, its position marked only by an auxiliary verb. Such elliptical constructions are generally easily and unambiguously understood. I...

The paper presents an approach to ellipsis resolution in a framework of scope underspecification (Underspecified Discourse Representation Theory). It is argued that the approach improves on previous proposals to integrate ellipsis resolution and scope underspecification (Crouch, 1995; Egg et al., 2001) in that application processes like anaphora resolution do not require full disambiguation but...

We give an analysis of ellipsis resolution in terms of a straightforward discourse copying algorithm that correctly predicts a wide range of phenomena. The treatment does not suffer from problems inherent in identity-of-relations analyses. Furthermore, in contrast to the approach of Dalrymple et al. [1991], the treatment directly encodes the intuitive distinction between full NPs and the refere...

These contrasts are typically thought to involve licensing conditions that the environment to the left of the ellipsis invoke. The contrast between (4a) and (4b), for instance, indicates that the ellipsis site must be in construction with, or perhaps governed by, a member of “Aux,” where these can be understood to be just those terms that are able occupy the highest of the functional projection...

This paper proposes that the argument structures be stated in a way that uses probabilities derived from a corpus to replace a Boolean-value system of subcategorization. To do this, we make a cognitive model from a situation to an utterance to explain the phenomena of arguments' ellipsis, though the traditional term ellipsis is not suitable under our new concepts. We claim that the binary disti...

Bundy and Richardson [7] presented a technique for reasoning about lists using ellipsis (the dots in 1+2+ . . .+10), where a polymorphic function, denoted by 2, is used to encapsulate recursive definitions of list functions and a portrayal system using ellipsis gives an informal proof. We highlight certain limitations of this technique and address these limitations using the recently developed ...

We offer a computational analysis of the resolution of ellipsis in certain cases of dialogue clarification. We show that this goes beyond standard techniques used in anaphora and ellipsis resolution and requires operations on highly structured, linguistically heterogeneous representations. We characterize these operations and the representations on which they operate. We offer an analysis couch...

We provide a general account of parallelism in discourse, and apply it to the special case of resolving possible readings for instances of VP ellipsis. We show how seyeral problematic examples are accounted for in a natural and straightforward fashion. The generality of the approach makes it directly applicable to a variety of other types of ellipsis and reference. 1 T h e P r o b l e m o f V P...