Anaphora Processing
Linguistic, cognitive and computational modelling
Editors
Anaphora processing is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines. The correct interpretation of anaphora has also become increasingly important for real-world natural language processing applications, including machine translation, automatic abstracting, information extraction and question answering.
This volume provides a unique overview of the processing of anaphora from a multi- and inter-disciplinary angle. It will be of interest and practical use to readers from fields as diverse as theoretical linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, human language technology, psycholinguistics, cognitive science and translation studies.
The readership includes but is not limited to university lecturers, researchers, postgraduate and senior undergraduate students.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 263] 2005. x, 449 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Editors’ Foreword | p. vii
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I. Computational Treatment
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A Sequenced Model of Anaphora and Ellipsis ResolutionShalom Lappin | p. 3
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How to Deal with Wicked Anaphora?Dan Cristea and Oana-Diana Postolache | p. 17
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A Machine Learning Approach to Preference Strategies for Anaphor ResolutionRoland Stuckardt | p. 47
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Decomposing DiscourseJoel Tetreault | p. 73
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A Lightweight Approach to Coreference Resolution for Named Entities in TextMarin Dimitrov, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham and Diana Maynard | p. 97
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A Unified Treatment of Spanish seRandy Sharp | p. 113
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II. Theretical, Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Issues
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Binding and Beyond: Issues in Backward AnaphoraEric J. Reuland and Sergey Avrutin | p. 139
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Modelling Referential Choice in Discourse: A Cognitive Calculative Approach and a Neutral Network ApproachAndré Grüning and Andrej A. Kibrik | p. 163
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Degrees of Indirectness: Two Types of Implicit Referents and their Retrieval via Unaccented PronounsFrancis Cornish | p. 199
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Pronominal Interpretation and the Syntax-Discourse Interface: Real-time Comprehension and Neurological PropertiesMaria Mercedes Piñango and Petra B. Schumacher | p. 221
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Top-down and Bottom-up Effects on the Interpretation of Weak Object Pronouns in GreekStavroula-Thaleia Kousta | p. 239
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Different Forms Have Different Referential Properties: Implications for the Notion of ‘Salience’Elsi Kaiser | p. 261
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Referential Accessibility and Anaphor Resolution: The Case of the French Hybrid Demonstrative Pronoun Celui-Ci/Celle-CiMarion Fossard and Francois Rigalleau | p. 283
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III. Corpus-Based Studies
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The Predicate-Argument Structure of Discourse Connectives: A Corpus-Based StudyCassandre Creswell, Katherine Forbes, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind K. Joshi and Bonnie Webber | p. 303
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Combining Centering-Based Models of Salience and Information Structure for Resolving Intersentential Pronominal AnaphoraCostanza Navarretta | p. 329
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Pronouns Without NP Antecedents: How do we Know when a Pronoun is Referential?Jeanette K. Gundel, Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski | p. 351
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Syntactic Form and Discourse AccessibilityGregory Ward and Andrew Kehler | p. 365
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Coreference and Anaphoric Relations of Demonstrative Noun Phrases in Multilingual CorpusRenata Vieira, Susanne Salmon-Alt and Caroline Gasperin | p. 385
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Anaphoric Demonstratives: Dealing with the Hard CasesMarco A.E. Rocha | p. 403
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Focu, Activation, and This-Noun Phrases: An Empirical StudyMassimo Poesio and Natalia N. Modjeska | p. 429
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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