Pronoun interpretation in Mandarin Chinese follows principles of Bayesian inference

Bayesian Pronoun Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese

Kehler and Rohde (2013) proposed a Bayesian theory of pronoun interpretation where the influence of world knowledge emerges as effects on the prior and the influence of information structure as effects on the likelihood: P(referent|pronoun) μ P(pronoun|referent)P(referent). Here we present two experiments on Mandarin Chinese that allow us to test the generality of the theory for a language with...

Null pronoun variation in Mandarin Chinese

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The influence of information status on pronoun resolution in Mandarin Chinese: evidence from ERPs

The purpose of this study is to shed light on the neural mechanisms underlying the modulation of pronoun resolution processes by the information status of the antecedent. Information status was manipulated by using a structurally based constraint (e.g., order of mention) as well as a pragmatically based constraint (i.e., topichood). We found that the pronouns referring to topic entities [the in...

Competitive Self-Trained Pronoun Interpretation

We describe a system for pronoun interpretation that is self-trained from raw data, that is, using no annotated training data. The result outperforms a Hobbsian baseline algorithm and is only marginally inferior to an essentially identical, state-of-the-art supervised model trained from a substantial manually-annotated coreference corpus.