Ellipsis is a linguistic phenomenon characterized by the omission of one or more sentence
elements. Solving such a linguistic construction is not a trivial issue in natural language …

What knowledge sources are necessary in the interpretation and generation of ellipsis? After
a short background on earlier approaches we compare and discuss each of the four papers …

A computational account of ellipsis should specify not only how the meaning of an elliptical
sentence is computed in context but also a description of what is being computed. Many …

Ellipsis resolution has been identified as an important step to improve the accuracy of
mainstream Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as information retrieval, event …

Ellipsis is a pervasive phenomenon across the world's languages, and it is easy to see why:
it allows speakers to omit certain parts of their utterances while nonetheless conveying their …

Despite the considerable attention paid to elliptical phenomena in the literature, the
conditions under which a representation of an utterance may serve as a suitable antecedent …

Most, if not all forms of ellipsis (eg, so does Mary) are similar to reading comprehension
questions (what does Mary do), in that in order to resolve them, we need to identify an …

This dissertation is about ellipsis, a natural language construction in which a word or phrase
is understood even though it is not pronounced. This project brings together two strands of …

Although considerable work exists on the subject of ellipsis resolution, there has been very
little empirical, corpus-based work on it. I propose a system which will take free text and (i) …

Common approaches to ellipsis typically posit one of two kinds of identity between elided
material and some local antecedent: syntactic or semantic, exclusively. When such identity is …