Theoretical research in the area of machine translation usually involves the search for and creation of an appropriate formalism. An important issue in this respect is the way in which the compositionality of translation is to be defined. In this paper, we will introduce the anaphoric component of the Mimo formalism. It makes the definition and translation of anaphoric relations possible, relat...

It has been widely acknowledged that the choice of Japanese demonstratives (the distal a-series, the medial so-series, and the proximal ko-series) in their anaphoric use is regulated by the rules concerned with the interlocutors’ knowledge of the referent. In crosslinguistic discussions of anaphoric demonstratives, on the other hand, the effect of the interlocutors’ knowledge of the referent ha...

Annotated resources are much needed for evaluation and training of anaphora resolution systems. The coreferential chain annotation is a difficult task which can not be realised without an appropriate tool. In this paper, we present our work on Arabic corpora annotation with anaphoric links (i.e., the annotation of the identity relation between the anaphors and their antecedents). In particular,...

We propose an approach to summarization exploiting both lexical information and the output of an automatic anaphoric resolver, and using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to identify the main terms. We demonstrate that adding anaphoric information results in significant performance improvements over a previously developed system, in which only lexical terms are used as the input to SVD. Howeve...

Discourse connectives can be analyzed as encoding predicate-argument relations whose arguments derive from the interpretation of discourse units. These arguments can be anaphoric or structural. Although structural arguments can be encoded in a parse tree, anaphoric arguments must be resolved by other means. A study of nine connectives, annotating the location, size, and syntactic type of their ...

Discourse connectives can be analysed as encoding predicate-argument relations whose arguments derive from the interpretation of discourse units. These arguments can be anaphoric or structural. Although structural arguments can be encoded in a parse tree, anaphoric arguments must be resolved by other means. A study of nine connectives, annotating the location, size, and syntactic type of their ...

Recent research suggests that pronoun interpretation is guided by the semantic coherence relations between clauses. However, it is not yet wellunderstood whether coherence effects extend to other anaphoric expressions beyond pronouns. We report an experiment on German, a language in which human antecedents can be referred to both with personal and demonstrative pronouns. How do anaphoric demons...

This article investigates how speakers and hearers who are referentially clear are designated anaphorically in Mandarin face-to-face conversation. Although anaphoric production involves both structural and functional factors, it is proposed that functional demands, which include social needs and pragmatic requirements, are the crucial determinants that decide the surface manifestations of anaph...

There are two major groups of analyses in the literature on English past tense; existential semantics with domain restriction, and pronominal (i.e. anaphoric) analysis. In this paper, I discuss a group data difficult for both these analyses: obligatory use some contexts without any salient antecedent, such as asking Who built church when pointing at (Kratzer 1998). The analysis predicts that te...

Coreference resolution involves finding antecedents for anaphoric discourse entities, such as definite noun phrases. But many definite noun phrases are not anaphoric because their meaning can be understood from general world knowledge (e.g., "the White House" or "the news media"). We have developed a corpus-based algorithm for automatically identifying definite noun phrases that are non-anaphor...