We investigate to what extent it helps to use an automatically generated instance list for resolving anaphoric definite NPs within the framework of an off-line answer extraction system. We compare three extraction methods. First, we looked at the extraction method that uses no anaphora resolution. Secondly, we determined the precision of the facts acquired by using instances for anaphora resolu...

In this paper we present our research on multimodal interaction in and with virtual environments. The aim of this presentation is to emphasize the necessity to spend more research on reference resolution in multimodal contexts. In multi-modal interaction the human conversational partner can apply more than one modality in conveying his or her message to the environment in which a computer detec...

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 ...

This paper will provide an LFG-based analysis of anaphoric relations in possessive and prepositional constructions in Jakaltek (an ergative Mayan language). In doing so it not only offers a solution to some previously unaccounted for language-internal incongruities, but also shows Jakaltek’s realisation of anaphoric relations of this type to be of typological and theoretical significance. Essen...

This paper reports on a hybrid architecture for computational anaphora resolution (CAR) of German that combines a rule-based pre-filtering component with a memory-based resolution module (using the Tilburg Memory Based Learner – TiMBL). The data source is provided by the TüBa-D/Z treebank of German newspaper text (Telljohann et al. 04) that is annotated with anaphoric relations. The CAR experim...

Interpreting anaphoric references is a fundamental aspect of our language competence that has long attracted the attention computational linguists. The appearance ever-larger anaphorically annotated data sets covering more and phenomena in ever-greater detail spurred development increasingly sophisticated models; as result, most recent state-of-the-art neural models are able to achieve impressi...

This paper proposes a method to analyze Japanese anaphora, in which zero pronouns (omitted obligatory cases) are used to refer to preceding entities (antecedents). Unlike the case of general coreference resolution, zero pronouns have to be detected prior to resolution because they are not expressed in discourse. Our method integrates two probability parameters to perform zero pronoun detection ...

The paper describes intermediate and resolved logical form representations of sentences involving referring expressions and a reference resolution process for mapping between these representations. The intermediate representation, Quasi Logical Form (or QLF), may contain unresolved terms corresponding to anaphoric noun phrases covering bound variable anaphora, reflexives, and definite descripti...