entity anaphora abstrProp abstrCluster abstrEvType anaphora poss meronym holonym hasMember setMember bridging Figure 1: Sekimo hierarchy of anaphoric relations For cospecLink two sets of secondary relations exist: one set for relations with antecedents of nominal type and one set for abstract entity anaphora. The subtypes of abstract entity anaphora are characterised as follows: abstrProp descr...

In this paper, we present a machine learning approach to the identification and resolution of Chinese anaphoric zero pronouns. We perform both identification and resolution automatically, with two sets of easily computable features. Experimental results show that our proposed learning approach achieves anaphoric zero pronoun resolution accuracy comparable to a previous state-ofthe-art, heuristi...

This paper presents the results of a comparative text analysis of English anaphoric pronouns & their Japanese counterparts. It first demonstrates that although anaphoric pronouns in English are often compared to zero pronominals in Japanese, not all, but only some, of the English anaphoric pronouns have their counterparts in zero pronominals in the same context in Japanese, and then argues that...

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...

The aim of this paper is to argue that update semantics is a natural framework for contextually restricted quantification, and to illustrate its use in the analysis of anaphoric definite descriptions and certain other anaphoric terms. The present discussion remains at an informal level, but takes place against the background of the system of update semantics for the language of modal predicate ...