Recognizing Anaphora Reference in Persian Sentences

Finding the reference of pronouns in a piece of text, which is a type of co-reference resolution, is an important task in discourse analysis and processing natural language texts.Pronoun reference is the noun that is replaced by the pronoun.In this paper, we propose a rule-based method for pronoun reference resolution in Persian texts. Our method exploits rules to recognize the reference of various types of pronouns in a 3-sentences interval. An automatic reference resolution system is developed based on the proposed method as the first pronoun reference resolution system for the Persian language. The experimental results show admissible accuracy in test cases. In this paper firstly we will describe some problems and challenges in detecting pronoun references and have an overview of related works in this field. In the next sections, after a brief description of the proposed method and the developed system, its features and architecture, we will discuss its components in detail. Then we will explain the experimental results and discuss further works to improve the system.