We apply a decision tree based approach to pronoun resolution in spoken dialogue. Our system deals with pronouns with NPand non-NP-antecedents. We present a set of features designed for pronoun resolution in spoken dialogue and determine the most promising features. We evaluate the system on twenty Switchboard dialogues and show that it compares well to Byron’s (2002) manually tuned system.

Pronoun resolution is an uncertain process in machine oriented natural language processing. There are many techniques to determine the referent of the pronoun. This paper addresses the resolution of two pronouns. "they" and "them". and looks at simplistic rules to improve the process of determining the referent, beyond simply deciding tm the basis of most recent plural noun.

The authors report 6 self-paced word-by-word reading studies of how morphosyntactic agreement, focus status, and the structural constraints of binding theory apply and interact during the online interpretation of pronouns (e.g., him, her) and anaphors (e.g., himself, each other). Previous studies held that structural conditions on coreference work as interpretive filters that impose exceptionle...

This paper conducts an experiment to investigate the effect of a physical constraint on a subject's viewpoint when using spoken language to navigate a robot. In addition, a robot navigation environment named Spondia-II has been developed for the experiment with an actual autonomous mobile robot. It is well known that the meaning of an utterance, such as a demonstrative pronoun, depends on the v...

This study investigates whether alternation learning is facilitated by a matching phonotactic generalization. In series of artificial grammar experiments, English learners were trained on languages evincing categorical vowel harmony alternations across morpheme boundaries. These differed in the degree within stems (disharmonic, semiharmonic, and harmonic), thus support for alternation. Results ...

A visual-world eye-tracking experiment investigated the influence of order of mention and grammatical role on resolution of ambiguous pronouns in Finnish. According to the first-mention account, general cognitive structure-building processes make the firstmentioned noun phrase the preferred antecedent of an ambiguous pronoun. According to the subject-preference account, the preferred antecedent...

Abstract Coreference processing of Control constructions and their pronoun-containing counterparts can be studied experimentally using priming or interference paradigms. We replicate findings in a study on non-finite Norwegian (Larsen & Johansson, 2020) contrast them with finite effects grammatical maze (G-maze) design. asked participants to read sentences word-by-word select the grammatica...