Overview

Discourse anaphora is a challenging linguistic phenomenon that has given rise to research in fields as diverse as linguistics, computational linguistics and cognitive science. Because of the diversity of approaches these fields bring to the anaphora problem, the editors of this volume argue that there needs to be a synthesis, or at least a principled attempt to draw the differing strands of anaphora research together. The selected papers in this volume all contribute to the aim of synthesis and were selected to represent the growing importance of corpus-based and computational approaches to anaphora description, and to developing natural language systems for resolving anaphora in natural language.

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Author:   Simon Philip Botley (Lancaster University) ,  Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9789027222725

ISBN 10:   902722272
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   15 June 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Discourse anaphora: The need for synthesis (by Botley, Simon Philip); 2. Demonstrative expressions in argumentative discourse: A computer corpus-based comparison of non-native and native English (by Petch-Tyson, Stephanie); 3. Is it possible to predetermine a referent included in a French N De N structure? (by Baltazart, Didier); 4. A corpus-based study of anaphora in English and Portuguese (by Rocha, Marco A.E.); 5. Conversational strategies using full NP anaphors (by Shokouhi, Hussein); 6. Some uses of demonstratives in spoken Swedish (by Lindstrom, Eva); 7. Pronoun resolution: The practical alternative (by Mitkov, Ruslan); 8. Quantitative evaluation of coreference algorithms in an information extraction system (by Gaizauskas, Robert); 9. Anaphoric reference and ellipsis resolution in a telephone-based spoken language system for accessing email (by Williams, Sandra); 10. Processing definite descriptions in corpora (by Vieira, Renata); 11. Indirect reference in Japanese sentences (by Murata, Masaki); 12. Generating coreferential anaphoric definite NPs (by Tutin, Agnes); 13. Name Index; 14. Subject Index

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