The grammatical category of person is a powerful shifter tool: it contributes to the organization speech act, distributes roles among its participants and regulates their behaviour. Means are primarily verbal inflections personal pronouns. At same time, there relations additional distribution between pronouns 1st 2nd substantives: where possible use forms person, impossible nouns. This fundamen...

Previous approaches to pronominalization have largely been theoretical rather than applied in nature. Frequently, such methods are based on Centering Theory, which deals with the resolution of anaphoric pronouns. But it is not clear that complex theoretical mechanisms, while having satisfying explanatory power, are necessary for the actual generation of pronouns. We first illustrate examples of...

This paper presents a quantitative and qualitative error analysis of Russian anaphora resolvers which participated in the RU-EVAL event. Its aim is to identify and characterize a set of challenging errors common to stateof-the-art systems dealing with Russian. We examined three types of pronouns: 3rd person pronouns, reflexive and relative pronouns. The investigation has shown that a high level...

Pronouns are commonly used instead of explicitly repeating a name, and, in many cases, we comprehend language faster when pronouns are used instead of repetitive references. This is surprising because pronouns are often ambiguous, whereas repeated names provide precise reference. We used functional MRI to investigate the neural correlates of this paradoxical preference. Reading repeated names e...

In a Hindi to Bengali transfer based machine translation system the baseline lexical transfer module replaces a Hindi word by its most frequent Bengali translation. Some pronouns in Hindi can have multiple translations in Bengali. The choices of actual translations have big impact on the accessibility of the translated sentence. The list of Hindi pronouns is small and their corresponding Bengal...

1. Introduction Resolving zero pronouns is a major problem in developing a natural language understanding (NLU) system for Thai. Since subject and object pronouns in Thai can be omitted from a sentence, an NLU system must be capable of identifying the missing subjects or objects in the sentence. This process of identifying referents for zero pronouns, which is a part of referent resolution 1 pr...

Previous work on pronouns in SMT has focussed on third-person pronouns, treating them all as anaphoric. Little attention has been paid to other uses or other types of pronouns. Believing that further progress requires careful analysis of pronouns as a whole, we have analysed a parallel corpus of annotated English-German texts to highlight some of the problems that hinder progress. We combine th...