Keywords: Disclaimer Wherever the male personal or possessive pronouns (he/his) are used in this report, they are fully applicable to female persons as well.

Self-referential evaluation of emotional stimuli has been shown to modify the way emotional stimuli are processed. This study aimed at a new approach by investigating whether self-reference alters emotion processing in the absence of explicit self-referential appraisal instructions. Event-related potentials were measured while subjects spontaneously viewed a series of emotional and neutral noun...

We implement a fully probabilistic model to combine the hypotheses of a Spanish anaphora resolution system with those of a Spanish-English machine translation system. The probabilities over antecedents are converted into probabilities for the features of translated pronouns, and are integrated with phrase-based MT using an additional translation model for pronouns. The system improves the trans...

This paper evaluates the different tasks carried out in the translation of pronominal anaphora in a machine translation (MT) system. The MT interlingua approach named AGIR (Anaphora Generation with an Interlingua Representation) improves upon other proposals presented to date because it is able to translate intersentential anaphors, detect co-reference chains, and translate Spanish zero pronoun...

This document analyses and compares some approaches to the Anaphora Resolution task and describes a Mitkov algorithm based solution adapted to the Portuguese Language. The developed system proposes to resolve pronominal anaphora, namely third person, personal and possessive pronouns, relative and demonstrative pronouns. During the system development a manual annotation tool was created, allowin...

In this paper we present a study of the relation between types of third personal singular neuter pronoun and their functions in Danish spoken data where stress information is marked so that personal and demonstrative occurrences of the pronouns can be distinguished. This study confirms that there are language specific differences in the way various types of pronoun are used to refer to abstract...

Pronouns without explicit noun phrase antecedents pose a problem for any theory of reference resolution. We report here on an empirical study of such pronouns in the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, a corpus of spontaneous, casual conversation. Analysis of 2,046 third person personal pronouns in fourteen transcripts indicates that 330 (or 16.1%) lack NP antecedents. These pronou...

This paper evaluates the different tasks carried out in the translation of pronominal anaphora in a machine translation (MT) system. The MT interlingua approach named AGIR (Anaphora Generation with an Interlingua Representation) improves upon other proposals presented to date because it is able to translate intersentential anaphors, detect co-reference chains, and translate Spanish zero pronoun...