Reference to Abstract Entities within Clausal Complements

Resolving Pronominal Reference to Abstract Entities

Abstract Entities

Entities Chris Swoyer Penultimate draft of a paper for Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, eds., Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman, Blackwell, 2008; pp 1-31. One of the most puzzling topics for newcomers to metaphysics is the debate over the existence and nature of abstract entities, things like numbers (seven), sets (the set of even numbers), properties (triangularity), an...

Verbal fields in Hungarian simple sentences and infinitival clausal complements

The paper presents an analysis of Hungarian sentence articulation driven by discourse-semantic functions such as topic and focus, hence the information structure of the utterance. In this paper extensions of the standard LTAG framework are proposed to represent the information structure driven positions in simple sentences. The elementary trees are generated by the meta-grammar, using the XMG t...

UDel: Extending Reference Generation to Multiple Entities

We report on an attempt to extend a reference generation system, originally designed only for main subjects, to generate references for multiple entities in a single document. This endeavor yielded three separate systems: one utilizing the original classifier, another with a retrained classifier, and a third taking advantage of new data to improve the identification of interfering antecedents. ...

Implicit Skolemization: Efficient Reference to Dependent Entities

Consider the following examples of functional reference. (1) All of the graduates received a job offer (at the job fair), and all of them accepted their offer. (2) If all of the graduates received a job offer then all of them accepted their offer. While these examples resemble the kinds of sentences that have motivated theories of dynamic binding such as DRT and DPL [10], they are not easily ha...