This thesis describes an implemented technique for resolving anaphoric pronouns referring
to both individual and abstract entities. The model defines rules for evoking high-order …

Pronouns without explicit noun phrase antecedents pose a problem for any theory of
reference resolution. We report here on an empirical study of such pronouns in the Santa …

Starting in the early 1990s, work began at Lancaster University on the annotation of corpus
data for the purpose of examining coreference in corpora of English (Fligelstone 1992). This …

The thesis describes an automatic anaphora resolution (AR) system for Norwegian,
focussing on the resolution of pronominal anaphora in fiction material. The system relies …

Reference Resolution (or coreference) is an important tool for information extraction systems
(systems which extract facts regarding\who did what to whom, when, and where"). Because …

In this article, we examine claims made about the conditions under which proximal (this,
these) and distal (that, those) demonstratives are chosen in English. In doing so, we will be …

In this paper, we propose the application of probabilistic neural networks (PNNs) to the
classification scheme of demonstrative pronouns for indirect anaphora in Hindi corpus. The …

Discourse entities are an important construct in computational linguistics. They introduce an
additional level of representation between referring expressions and that which they refer to …

Much work has been done in the field of Natural Language Processing in the last decade,
especially in the areas of information extraction and text (document) retrieval. Numerous …

Givenness is a term that haunts the linguistic literature. It is particularly persistent when
researchers talk about referring expressions: Does that expression refer to something new …