The readers' ability to integrate current information with given information has been considered as an important component of reading comprehension process. One aspect of this integration process involves anaphoric resolution. The purpose of this study is to investigate the process of anaphoric resolution, focusing on inferential rigidity of different types of anaphoric ties. Ninety EFL learner...

This study approaches online social networking from the opposite direction, focusing on unsociability, in an attempt to find out how friendships are negotiated and terminated online. The research data was obtained via an online survey (N=107) targeted to SNS users. The findings show that Facebook is closely connected to offline social life, and the fading of offline relationship was the most co...

The present paper conducts a pioneering study on the phonetic manifestation and influence of zero anaphora in Chinese reading texts. The stress degree of the boundary syllable and the duration of the pause at the anaphoric position are examined. The results show: i) the boundary syllable after zero anaphoric form is more accented; for the two types of zero anaphora concerned in this study, the ...

In this preliminary study, we analyzed the kind of anaphoric expressions that occur in expressions describing protein interactions found in biological text. We also studied the impact of anaphora resolution on protein interaction extraction, when an off-the-shelf anaphoric resolver (i.e., not one specially developed for this domain) is used, and looking at full texts as well as abstracts. Our r...

Knowing how the deictic expression is delivered in our daily interaction way necessary to help participant avoiding an ambiguity interpretation. This researcher aimed analyze speaker and hearer Diary of a Wimpy Kid dealt with place reveal type used within each usage by considering some different term proposed Levinson (1983) other linguist. research descriptive qualitative method analysis found...

Anaphoric shell nouns such as this issue and this fact conceptually encapsulate complex pieces of information (Schmid, 2000). We examine the feasibility of annotating such anaphoric nouns using crowdsourcing. In particular, we present our methodology for reliably annotating antecedents of such anaphoric nouns and the challenges we faced in doing so. We also evaluated the quality of crowd annota...

Some constraints on functions from sets and relations to sets are studied. Such constraints are satisfied by anaphoric functions, that is functions denoted by anaphoric determiners. These constraints are generalisations of anaphor conditions known from the study of simpler cases of nominal anaphors. In addition a generalisation of the notion of conservativity as applied to anaphoric functions i...