The paper describes a substitutional approach to ellipsis resolution giving comparable results to (Dalrymple et al., 1991), but without the need for order-sensitive interleaving of quantifier scoping and ellipsis resolution. It is argued that the orderindependence results from viewing semantic interpretation as building a description of a semantic composition, instead of the more common view of...

The paper describes a substitutional approach to ellipsis resolution giving comparable results to (?), but without the need for order-sensitive interleaving of quantiier scoping and ellipsis resolution. It is argued that the order-independence results from viewing semantic interpretation as building a description of a semantic composition, instead of the more common view of interpretation as ac...

We present a hybrid text understanding methodology for the resolution of textual ellipsis. It integrates language-independent conceptual criteria and language-dependent functional constraints. The methodological framework for text ellipsis resolution is the centering model that has been adapted to constraints reflecting the functional information structure within utterances, i.e., the distincti...

This paper deals with the underspeciied semantic representation of ellipsis and its resolution. We present an analysis to explain the distribution of strict and sloppy readings in the interaction of verb phrase ellipsis and anaphora. The analysis is integrated into a framework that enables a uniform and underspeciied treatment of scope, anaphora and VPE.

In this paper, we present a machine learning system for classifying subject ellipsis in Spanish as either referential or non-referential. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to automatically identify non-referential ellipsis in Spanish. An evaluation of our system against 6,827 finite verbs shows an accuracy of 87%.

Verb phrase ellipsis is a phenomenon in English where a verb phrase is omitted from an utterance, and its intended meaning is recovered from context. The target, or elided, verb phrase need not be a perfect match for its antecedent, and morpho-syntactic differences of a variety of types (e.g. tense or aspectual marking) may be tolerated (Quirk et al. 1972). The case of voice mismatch, where the...