We describe a pronoun interpretation experiment in which a Coherence Hypothesis is tested against preference-based analyses of pronoun interpretation, including the Parallel Function Preference and the Subject Preference. We demonstrate that preferences can be systematically disrupted through the manipulation of coherence, and that only the Coherence Hypothesis can predict the full range of cor...

In this paper we present our systems for the DiscoMT 2017 cross-lingual pronoun prediction shared task. For all four language pairs, we trained a standard attention-based neural machine translation system as well as three variants that incorporate information from the preceding source sentence. We show that our systems, which are not specifically designed for pronoun prediction and may be used ...

1 Binding It has long been observed that pronouns (he/she/him/her, etc.) and reflexives (himself/herself, etc.) seem to be in complementary distribution in English. This means that in the same structural position a pronoun and a reflexive will have different interpretations. In (1) for example, a pronoun in object position is barred from taking the subject as its antecedent, but a reflexive in ...

It has been noted that examples with extractions out of relative clauses have attested in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are judged to be unacceptable Icelandic Faroese. We hypothesize this may reflect whether or not speakers tend prepose unstressed object pronouns as a way establishing coherent discourse. In article we investigate what extent pronoun preposing is used Swedish, Faroese there any...

language is a system and every system has rules that govern the structure of its vocabulary. the rules of the arabic language are based on the vowels that consistent with the meanings used in the context represent the words' position. there are some basic rules in addition to vowels which are mostly seen in the written texts. one of these rules is the matching rule that refers to the condi...

This paper proposes a method to analyze Japanese anaphora, in which zero pronouns (omitted obligatory cases) are used to refer to preceding entities (antecedents). Unlike the case of general coreference resolution, zero pronouns have to be detected prior to resolution because they are not expressed in discourse. Our method integrates two probability parameters to perform zero pronoun detection ...

A visual-world eye-tracking experiment investigated the influence of order of mention and grammatical role on resolution of ambiguous pronouns in Finnish. According to the first-mention account, general cognitive structure-building processes make the first-mentioned noun phrase the preferred antecedent of an ambiguous pronoun. According to the subject-preference account, the preferred anteceden...

One of the remarkable properties of Verb Second (V2) syntax is the fact that the constituent preceding the finite verb – let’s for simplicity call it ‘SpecCP’ – can under certain circumstances be dropped (cf. Ross 1982; Huang 1984; Fries 1988 for German, Ackema & Neeleman 2007 for Dutch). Pronoun drop is strictly confined to pronouns in SpecCP and can only occur in the root clause. In a context...

This paper proposes unsupervised word sense disambiguation based on automatically constructed case frames and its incorporation into our zero pronoun resolution system. The word sense disambiguation is applied to verbs and nouns. We consider that case frames define verb senses and semantic features in a thesaurus define noun senses, respectively, and perform sense disambiguation by selecting th...

Traditionally, literacy, and speech production have been investigated separately. Studies of development demonstrate that children are able to meet the challenge of language learning across modalities, and that adults may experience difficulties in one or both modalities. Yet, it is rare to find a conceptual connection between these two processes. I argue that speaking and reading actually shar...