We report the results of a study that investigates the agreement of anaphoric annotations. The study focuses on the influence of the factors text length and text type on a corpus of scientific articles and newspaper texts. In order to measure inter-annotator agreement we compare existing approaches and we propose to measure each step of the annotation process separately instead of measuring the...

This paper presents a strategy and a computational model for solving inter-sentential anaphoric pronouns in Vietnamese paragraphs composing simple sentences. The strategy is proposed based on grammatical features of nouns and the focus phenomenon when using pronouns in Vietnamese. In this research, we consider only nouns and pronouns which are human objects in the paragraph, and each anaphoric ...

Arrau is a new corpus annotated for anaphoric relations, with information about agreement and explicit representation of multiple antecedents for ambiguous anaphoric expressions and discourse antecedents for expressions which refer to abstract entities such as events, actions and plans. The corpus contains texts from different genres: task-oriented dialogues from the Trains-91 and Trains-93 cor...

In this paper, we present experimental evidence from a ‘yes’/’no’ judgement task and twoacceptability rating studies (Experiments 1a-c) for the claim made in Hinterwimmer (2019) thatsentences with two anaphorically interpreted complex demonstratives are less acceptable thansentences definite descriptions sentences where one ofthe previously introduced referents is picked up by demonstrative, wh...

This paper is about reasoning with presuppositions in natural language. Pre-supposition accommodation, as predicted by the linguistic theory of presupposi-tions as anaphoric expressions, is reconstructed logically as abductive inference in a framework that supports both anaphoric links and a context-dependent notion of propositionhood. Abductive inference arises as a side-eeect of the use of th...

It was shown in Schlenker (to appear) that in ASL one and the same anaphoric element has nominal, temporal, and modal uses, and that in all three domains generalized quantifiers can introduce loci (= positions in signing space) that denote what is often called the 'maximal set', i.e. the maximal set of objects that satisfy both the restrictor and the nuclear scope. But the anaphoric status of r...

In modal subordination, a modal sentence is interpreted relative to a hypothetical scenario introduced in an earlier sentence. In this paper, I argue that this phenomenon reflects the fact that the interpretation of modals is an ANAPHORIC process, precisely analogous to the anaphoric interpretation of tense. Modal morphemes introduce alternative scenarios as entities into the discourse model; t...

A new task put on the agenda of philosophical logic by the recent dynamic turn, the account for the dynamics of anaphoric context shifts in reasoning, is taken up. The paper gives a sequent axiomatisation of some well known dynamic anaphora logics. The calculi are shown to be sound and complete. They differ from earlier calculi for the dynamics of anaphoric context in that they take the notion ...

One motivation for Universal Grammar (UG) comes from the existence of induction problems in language acquisition, and their solutions. Previous induction problem characterizations have typically not recognized that INDIRECT POSITIVE evidence may be both available and useful, in addition to other types of evidence. As a case study, we investigate whether a probabilistic learner utilizing indirec...