Abstract The goal of this paper is to revisit the so-called aspectual se , frequently cited over last three decades as a new function reflexive pronouns in Spanish and other languages, which refers facultative uses pronoun where it has no effect on valency or diathesis verb. I will focus four empirical problems that such accounts face when dealing with corpus data: requirement delimited object ...

Several researchers have noted the local coherence exhibited by discourse (Sidner 1979; Grosz, Joshi, and Weinstein 1983; Carter 1987; etc.). A primary component of this local coherence is the way the local focus of the discourse shifts from one sentence to the next and the way this shifting is marked by linguistic choices made by the writer/speaker. By local focus, we refer to that concept a s...

Abstract The goal of this paper is to revisit the so-called aspectual se , frequently cited over last three decades as a new function reflexive pronouns in Spanish and other languages, which refers facultative uses pronoun where it has no effect on valency or diathesis verb. I will focus four empirical problems that such accounts face when dealing with corpus data: requirement delimited object ...

We propose an unsupervised Expectation Maximization approach to pronoun resolution. The system learns from a fixed list of potential antecedents for each pronoun. We show that unsupervised learning is possible in this context, as the performance of our system is comparable to supervised methods. Our results indicate that a probabilistic gender/number model, determined automatically from unlabel...

We describe a system for contextually appropriate anaphor and pronoun generation for Turkish. It uses Binding Theory and Centering Theory to model local and nonlocal reference. We describe the rules for Turkish, and their computational treatment. A cascaded method for anaphor and pronoun generation is proposed for handling pro-drop and discourse constraints on pronominalization. The system has ...

Abstract We investigate the hypothesis that a pronoun is used in discourse, when its antecedent is in the focus of the discourse. We create a corpus of ‘replaced anaphoric definite descriptions’, where occurrences of definite descriptions are replaced with a corresponding pronoun. We use the Lappin and Leass (1994) anaphora resolution algorithm on the new corpus, and obtain a much lower perform...

This paper presents baseline models for the cross-lingual pronoun prediction task and the pronoun-focused translation task at DiscoMT 2015. We present simple yet effective classifiers for the former and discuss the impact of various contextual features on the prediction performance. In the translation task we rely on the document-level decoder Docent and a cross-sentence target language-model o...

This thesis describes SwePron, an algorithm for automatic resolution of pronouns in Swedish, using Mitkov’s algorithm for pronoun resolution in English (MARS) as a starting point. There are several changes made to the algorithm in order to adapt it to the Swedish language. One key language difference is that Swedish has two “neutral” genders, whereas English only has one. A second important dif...

Haspelmath 1997 poses a challenge for current theories of indefinites. Extensive data from 40 languages show there are too many differences between indefinite pronoun series to account for with the usual machinery for indefinites. For instance, we can take Russian as an example: below are 4 main Russian indefinite pronoun series. There are at least 4 other series unlisted in (1), and Bylinina &...