We examine demonstrative pronouns in a portion of the Santa Barbara Corpus of American English and propose a coding scheme that classifies pronouns with nominal as well as non-nominal antecedents into direct and indirect, depending on whether their referent is the same as the referent/denotation of the antecedent. In agreement with previous studies, we find that demonstratives more often have n...

This paper describes an approach to contextual reasoning for interpretation of spoken multimodal dialogue. The approach is based on combining recencybased search for antecedents with an object-oriented domain representation in such a way that the search is highly constrained by the type information of the antecedents. By furthermore representing candidate antecedents from the dialogue history a...

Existing approaches for Chinese zero pronoun resolution overlook semantic information. This is because zero pronouns have no descriptive information, which results in difficulty in explicitly capturing their semantic similarities with antecedents. Moreover, when dealing with candidate antecedents, traditional systems simply take advantage of the local information of a single candidate anteceden...

This paper looks at how organisations can become more sophisticated at supporting knowledge sharing, by identifying antecedents of knowledge sharing. The paper contributes to the literature in two ways: it develops a comprehensive model of antecedents of knowledge sharing that differentiates between three categories of antecedents: people infrastructure, organisational infrastructure and knowle...

(1) is a counterfactual conditional. Utterances of counterfactual conditionals are typically accompanied by the information that their antecedents are false. But what is the source of that information? Two arguments show that this information is neither an entailment nor a presupposition of the counterfactual. First, counterfactual conditionals can be used to argue for the falsity of their ante...

This paper argues that elliptical VPs do not necessarily present cases of VP ellipsis. Certain relative clauses that contain elliptical VPs are analysed as instances of transitive verb phrase ellipsis. A storing account of ellipsis resolution is given. Resolution of TVP ellipsis is achieved by resolving a binary relation that derives from an antecedent TVP. This avoids the problem of antecedent...

In this paper is a conceptual framework that examines the antecedents and consequences successful enterprise systems stabilization and production support and test its empirical validity. Top managements support, production strategy, education and training, vendor selection, business process reengineering, project team competence, high cost, change of management, and language barrier were applie...

We investigated various learning antecedents that have been the research subjects of Learning Analytics (LA) studies and explored the content and quantity of the LA literature with respect to each antecedent through text mining the LAK dataset. Our goal was to simultaneously reveal to what extent do LA researchers address learning antecedents and how they incorporated these in the implementatio...

Previous research on pronoun resolution in German revealed that personal pronouns in German tend to refer to the subject or topic antecedents, however, these results are based on studies involving subject personal pronouns. We report a visual world eye-tracking study that investigated the impact of the word order and grammatical role parallelism on the online comprehension of pronouns in German...

Purpose – The specific aim of this paper is to explore the multi-disciplinary academic antecedents of KM in order to better understand KM. By doing so, it is suggested that KM can be more effectively applied in real-world situations, such as professional occupations. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is conceptual: five core antecedents of KM – philosophy, sociology, psychology, comput...