Definite Description Resolution in Spanish
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چکیده
In this work, a method for the resolution of the identity co-reference produced by definite descriptions in Spanish texts is presented. This method is based on the linguistic knowledge acquired by POS-tagger, synonymous dictionary and relationships between names and verbs resources. This method uses a system of restrictions and preferences in order to obtain the correct antecedent. The method achieves a precision of 95% for the identification of non-anaphoric and anaphoric uses of definite descriptions. Moreover, the method achieves a precision of 80% for the reference resolution task. In addition, a profound study of linguistic characteristics of definite descriptions in a Spanish corpus has been made. From this study, a classification of the different definite description types has been obtained.
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