This paper proposes a basic scheme for annotating anaphoric relations in Japanese conversations. More specifically, we propose methods of (i) dividing discourse segments into meaningful units, (ii) identifying zero pronouns and other overt anaphors, (iii) classifying zero pronouns, and (iv) identifying anaphoric relations. We discuss various kinds of problems involved in the annotation mainly c...

1. Intrcnluction Translation of anaphoric expressions has been problematic in most of the MT systems (Key 1986). One ot' the main reasons for the difficulties lies in the lack of discourse information representation in the MT systems. In this paper, we report an implementation of the Discourse Representation Theory in an LFG-based Engl ishto-Japanese MT program, and discuss problems in translat...

Van der Sandt s anaphoric account of presupposition is gen erally considered to be the theory which makes the best empiri cal predictions about presupposition projection see e g Beaver The main insight is that there is an interesting cor respondence between the behavior of anaphoric pronouns in dis course and the projection of presuppositions in complex sentences Van der Sandt proposes to resol...

The aim of this paper is to treat background (non-focus) elements as anaphoric, i.e. as objects which are formally subject to the same conditions which hold for other anaphora. The idea that backgrounds are anaphoric is inherent in many approaches to information structure, but they are rarely treated as such formally. I will discuss two problems which seem to challenge a strict anaphoricity app...

In this paper we present an automatic mechanism for bilingual (Spanish-English) alignment of anaphoric expressions. For this purpose, two anaphora resolution systems were used. Both are based on linguistic preferences and constraints, for Spanish (SUPPAR) and for English (MARS). These systems have been independently developed and each of them is presented individually with their evaluation resu...

Based on the National corpus data of Russian language and especially Mikhail Lomonosov’s texts, article focuses a pronoun pair sei — onyi. In Church Slavonic in Middle these pronouns were used deictic substitution (anaphoric) function. The onyi phrase or period indicates juxtaposition opposition objects are Closer attention to works translations makes it possible notice one feature that is not ...

One peculiarity of referential metonymy is that metonymic subjects and their predicates need not agree as to number. Nor need there be gender agreement between metonymic expressions and anaphoric pronouns. In this respect metonymies differ from metaphors.To account for the apparently erratic syntax in utterances containing referential metonymies, it is first suggested that these involve implici...