Anaphoric Cues for Coherence Relations
نویسندگان
چکیده
In this paper, we focus on the way how the rhetorical discourse structure of texts, in terms of coherence relations, and different types of referring expressions depend on each other. In particular, we concentrate on the impact the resolution of anaphora has on the derivation of coherence relations. We introduce an algorithm which combines such analyses and provide a preliminary evaluation of its empirical validity.
منابع مشابه
On the relation between coherence relations and anaphoric demonstratives in German
Recent research suggests that pronoun interpretation is guided by the semantic coherence relations between clauses. However, it is not yet wellunderstood whether coherence effects extend to other anaphoric expressions beyond pronouns. We report an experiment on German, a language in which human antecedents can be referred to both with personal and demonstrative pronouns. How do anaphoric demons...
متن کاملAnaphora as an Indicator of Elaboration: A Corpus Study
entity anaphora abstrProp abstrCluster abstrEvType anaphora poss meronym holonym hasMember setMember bridging Figure 1: Sekimo hierarchy of anaphoric relations For cospecLink two sets of secondary relations exist: one set for relations with antecedents of nominal type and one set for abstract entity anaphora. The subtypes of abstract entity anaphora are characterised as follows: abstrProp descr...
متن کاملRespecting Relations: Memory Access and Antecedent Retrieval in Incremental Sentence Processing
Title of dissertation: RESPECTING RELATIONS: MEMORY ACCESS AND ANTECEDENT RETRIEVAL IN INCREMENTAL SENTENCE PROCESSING Dave W. Kush, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Colin Phillips Department of Linguistics This dissertation uses the processing of anaphoric relations to probe how linguistic information is encoded in and retrieved from memory during real-time senten...
متن کاملVerb Phrase Ellipsis and Pseudogapping are (really) not the same
Verb Phrase (VP) Ellipsis and Pseudogapping have at times been treated as variants of the same process (Kuno 1981, Jayaseelan 1990, 2001, Lasnik 1995, 1999, Johnson 2001). In both cases something verbal is elided. In VP Ellipsis the verb and all of its arguments are elided, while in Pseudogapping, only the verb (and a subset of its arguments) is elided stranding one of its arguments; in both ca...
متن کاملInterpreting Cohesive Forms in the Context of Discourse Inference
In this thesis, we present analyses and algorithms for resolving a variety of cohesive phenomena in natural language, including VP-ellipsis, gapping, event reference, tense, and pronominal reference. Past work has attempted to explain the complicated behavior of these expressions with theories that operate within a single module of language processing. We argue that such approaches cannot be ma...
متن کامل