This paper presents our findings on the feasibility of doing pronoun resolution for biomedical texts, in comparison with conducting pronoun resolution for the newswire domain. In our experiments, we built a simple machine learning-based pronoun resolution system, and evaluated the system on three different corpora: MUC, ACE, and GENIA. Comparative statistics not only reveal the noticeable issue...

Recent story completion studies (Arnold 2001, Rohde et al. 2006) show that passages exhibiting different coherence relations yield different patterns of pronoun interpretation. These results predict that a shift in the distribution of coherence relations in participant responses ought to induce a shift in the distribution of pronoun interpretations. Experiment 1 manipulates the coherence distri...

We present a graphical pronoun analysis tool and a set of guidelines for manual evaluation to be used with the PROTEST pronoun test suite for machine translation (MT). The tool provides a means for researchers to evaluate the performance of their MT systems and browse individual pronoun translations. MT systems may be evaluated automatically by comparing the translation of the test suite pronou...

The phonetic realisation of the first-person singular possessive form my is highly variable, as observed by Hollmann and Siewierska (2007) in their account of the feature in Lancashire and Snell (2008, 2010) in her sociolinguistic study of Teesside school children’s speech. This paper presents an investigation into the phonetic variability of the possessive singular in a different variety, Tyne...

sometimes there comes a pronoun after a common [individual], which has apparently been used as the object of a legal decision (ḥukm), and by means of external evidence, the certainty is achieved that this pronoun refers to some common individuals. then, the question arises as to whether reference of the pronoun to some common individuals would cause its designation or the common generality cont...

This paper presents a perceptual evaluation of a text to speech (TTS) synthesizer in Greek with respect to acoustic registration of enclitic stress and related naturalness and intelligibility. Based on acoustical measurements and observations of naturally recorded utterances, the corresponding output of a commercially available formant-based speech synthesizer was altered and the results were s...

A recent paper (Beaver, 2004) recasts the Centering algorithm for pronoun resolution (Brennan et al., 1987) in terms of optimality theory (OT). Although the limitations of centering for pronoun resolution are well known, the algorithm's restatement in OT highlights the strengths of centering and produces an algorithm whose behavior is more transparent to the developer. The authors' motivation f...