" This book is an absolute necessity for instructors at all levels, as well as an indispensible
reference for researchers. Introducing NLP, computational linguistics, and speech …

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously
across the languages of the world. Some languages have only a few demonstrative …

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Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the
ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a …

Most current theories of text processing assume a constructionist view of inference
processing. In this article, an alternative view is proposed, labeled the minimalist hypothesis …

This paper presents an algorithm for identifying the noun phrase antecedents of third person
pronouns and lexical anaphors (reflexives and reciprocals). The algorithm applies to the …

In this book, Nomi Erteschik-Shir develops a new theory of focus structure, integrating
insights from syntax, semantics, phonology and pragmatics. She explores the role of focus …

Little is known regarding the similarities and differences in the use of demon stratives
exhibited by various unrelated languages. The standard procedure in reference grammars is …

In this paper we present a formalization of the centering approach to modeling attentional
structure in discourse and use it as the basis for an algorithm to track discourse context and …

Teaching computers to solve language problems is one of the major challengesof natural
language processing. There is a large amount of interesting researchdevoted to this field …