This article explored the use of Indonesian pronouns by young people in Indonesia. The way which they erodes culture encoded pronouns. They kamu (you, second-person singular pronoun), kalian plural kita (we (you and me), first-person kami (not including you), pronoun) that do not comply with grammar. data was collected observing language used among younger generation online everyday speech. ana...

This study investigates the effect of coherence relations and accent on pronoun reference. Participants heard sentences like John saw Jeff, and Jane called him, and indicated which noun the pronoun referred to. Here, the pronoun is said to be ambiguous because it can refer either to John or to Jeff. The sentences had one of two different types of coherence relations (Kehler, 2002), and were var...

This paper presents our findings on the feasibility of doing pronoun resolution for biomedical texts, in comparison with conducting pronoun resolution for the newswire domain. In our experiments, we built a simple machine learning-based pronoun resolution system, and evaluated the system on three different corpora: MUC, ACE, and GENIA. Comparative statistics not only reveal the noticeable issue...

Recent story completion studies (Arnold 2001, Rohde et al. 2006) show that passages exhibiting different coherence relations yield different patterns of pronoun interpretation. These results predict that a shift in the distribution of coherence relations in participant responses ought to induce a shift in the distribution of pronoun interpretations. Experiment 1 manipulates the coherence distri...

We present a graphical pronoun analysis tool and a set of guidelines for manual evaluation to be used with the PROTEST pronoun test suite for machine translation (MT). The tool provides a means for researchers to evaluate the performance of their MT systems and browse individual pronoun translations. MT systems may be evaluated automatically by comparing the translation of the test suite pronou...

sometimes there comes a pronoun after a common [individual], which has apparently been used as the object of a legal decision (ḥukm), and by means of external evidence, the certainty is achieved that this pronoun refers to some common individuals. then, the question arises as to whether reference of the pronoun to some common individuals would cause its designation or the common generality cont...

Despite the a priori desiratum of assimilating the derivation and interpretation of wh-questions in Japanese to that in English, empirical evidence shows that overt displacement of wh-phrases in Japanese is not the same as overt wh-movement in English. The syntax of wh-phrases in Japanese is essentially the same as that of non-wh-phrases. Failure of scope reconstruction in certain cases is not ...

A recent paper (Beaver, 2004) recasts the Centering algorithm for pronoun resolution (Brennan et al., 1987) in terms of optimality theory (OT). Although the limitations of centering for pronoun resolution are well known, the algorithm's restatement in OT highlights the strengths of centering and produces an algorithm whose behavior is more transparent to the developer. The authors' motivation f...