In this paper, we employ the centering theory in pronoun resolution from the semantic perspective. First, diverse semantic role features with regard to different predicates in a sentence are explored. Moreover, given a pronominal anaphor, its relative ranking among all the pronouns in a sentence, according to relevant semantic role information and its surface position, is incorporated. In parti...

Most existing approaches for zero pronoun resolution are supervised approaches, where annotated data are released by shared task organizers. Therefore, the lack of annotated data becomes a major obstacle in zero pronoun resolution task. The existing approaches mainly face the challenge of costing manpower on labeling the extended data for better training performance and domain adaption. To alle...

This paper proposes a context-sensitive convolution tree kernel for pronoun resolution. It resolves two critical problems in previous researches in two ways. First, given a parse tree and a pair of an anaphor and an antecedent candidate, it implements a dynamic-expansion scheme to automatically determine a proper tree span for pronoun resolution by taking predicateand antecedent competitor-rela...

This paper addresses the translation divergencies of pronouns from English to French, specifically it and they, which have several gendered and non-gendered possible translations into French. Instead of using anaphora resolution, which is error-prone, we build a target language model that estimates the probabilities of a tuple of consecutive nouns followed by a pronoun. We bring evidence for th...

Some accounts of English pronoun case in coordination (Emonds 1986, Sobin 1997) have argued that the observed data on the phenomenon are the result of a naturally acquired grammar in which coordinated pronouns are universally accusative (Emonds’ N[ormal] U[sage]), pitted against an explicitly learned system in which coordinated pronouns are prescribed to be nominative in syntactic environments ...

It has long been assumed in linguistics that bound variable interpretations of pronouns are possible (only) when a quantified expression c-commands the pronoun. In two studies in which readers’ eye movements were recorded, we examined the processing of pronouns bound by universal quantifiers. Experiment 1 compared examples where the quantifier c-commands the pronoun (‘Every British soldier thou...

German pronouns (er(MALE/masculine), sie(FEMALE/feminine)) that refer to a person are determined by the biological gender (MALE/FEMALE) and/or syntactic gender (masculine/feminine) of the person. Pronouns (er(masculine), sie(feminine)) that refer to a thing are determined by the syntactic gender of this thing (Garten [garden]masculine, Tasche [hand-bag]feminine). The study aimed to investigate ...

This study is an attempt to trace the tendencies of L2 learners of Spanish in identifying the explicitly alien distinction between the pronouns tú and usted . This "T/V" distinction is an important factor in social communications given the two pronouns' differing connotations, the "T" pronoun, tú being more casual, while the "V" pronoun usted being more formal. Here I overview the survey respon...

Individuals with agrammatic aphasia fail to interpret reversible movement-derived sentences. According to the Trace Deletion Hypothesis, this impairment in comprehension results from the deletion of traces of phrasal movement. In order to test this hypothesis, we compared object relatives with a trace to identical object relatives that are not derived by syntactic movement and do not include a ...