Notwithstanding conclusive psychological and corpus evidence that at least some aspects of anaphoric and referential interpretation take place incrementally, and the existence of some computational models of incremental reference resolution, many aspects of the linguistics of incremental reference interpretation still have to be better understood. We propose a model of incremental reference int...

Anaphora resolution has proven to be a very difficult problem; it requires the integrated application of syntactic. semantic. and pragmatic knowledge. This paper examines the hypothesis that instead of attempting to construct a monolithic method for resolving anaphora. the combination of multiple strategies, each exploiting a different knowledge source, proves more effective -theoretically and ...

We present results from an online experiment designed to probe the cognitive underpinnings of intra-sentential pronoun resolution. Event-related brain potentials were used to test the hypothesis that the processing of anaphoric links established between pronouns and non commanding antecedents demands more cognitive resources than the processing of anaphoric links to commanding antecedents. The ...

In this paper, we argue that the resolution of anaphoric expressions in an utterance is essentially an abductive task following [HSAM93] who use a weighted abduction scheme on horn clauses to deal with reference. We give a semantic representation for utterances containing anaphora that enables us to compute possible antecedents by abductive inference. We extend the disjunctive model constructio...

In this work, a method for the resolution of the identity co-reference produced by definite descriptions in Spanish texts is presented. This method is based on the linguistic knowledge acquired by POS-tagger, synonymous dictionary and relationships between names and verbs resources. This method uses a system of restrictions and preferences in order to obtain the correct antecedent. The method a...

Vieira and Poesio (2000) proposed an algorithm for definite description (DD) resolution that incorporates a number of heuristics for detecting discoursenew descriptions. The inclusion of such detectors was motivated by the observation that more than 50% of definite descriptions (DDs) in an average corpus are discourse new (Poesio and Vieira, 1998), but whereas the inclusion of detectors for non...

In this paper, we argue that the resolution of anaphoric expressions in an utterance is essentially an abductive task following [12] who use a weighted abduction scheme on horn clauses to deal with reference. We give a semantic representation for utterances containing anaphora that enables us to compute possible antecedents by abductive inference. We extend the disjunctive model construction pr...

Coreference resolution task demands comprehending a discourse, especially for anaphoric mentions which require semantic information for resolving antecedents. We investigate into how memory networks can be helpful for coreference resolution when posed as question answering problem. The comprehension capability of memory networks assists coreference resolution, particularly for the mentions thos...

Linking implicit semantic roles is a challenging problem in discourse processing. Unlike prior work inspired by SRL, we cast this problem as an anaphora resolution task and embed it in an entity-based coreference resolution (CR) architecture. Our experiments clearly show that CR-oriented features yield strongest performance exceeding a strong baseline. We address the problem of data sparsity by...