Anaphora Resolution as Lexical Cohesion Identification

Anaphora, an important indicator in lexical cohesion, is a discourse level linguistic phenomenon. Most theoretical linguistic approaches to the interpretation of anaphoric expressions propose a treatment on the basis of purely syntactic information. In this article, what we proposed is to cast anaphora resolution as a semantic inference process in which combination of multiple strategies, each exploiting a different linguistic knowledge, is employed to resolve anaphora into a coherent one. We also exhibit how to embed an anaphora resolution into a framework which captures all the salient parameters as well as to remedy, to a certain extent, the inadequacies found in any monolithic resolution systems. The effectiveness of the anaphora resolution considered in this work is exemplified through a set of simulations.