Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications

This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2007, held in Lagos, Portugal in March 2007. The 13 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on human processing and performance, language analysis and representation, resolution methodology and algorithms, as well as computational systems and applications.

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Human Processing and Performance.- Nuclear Accent Placement and Other Prosodic Parameters as Cues to Pronoun Resolution.- Empirically Assessing Effects of the Right Frontier Constraint.- Pronoun Resolution and the Influence of Syntactic and Semantic Information on Discourse Prominence.- Language Analysis and Representation.- Anaphora Resolution as Equality by Default.- Null Subjects Are Reflexives, Not Pronouns.- Using Very Large Parsed Corpora and Judgment Data to Classify Verb Reflexivity.- An Empirical Investigation of the Relation Between Coreference and Quotations: Can a Pronoun Located in Quotations Find Its Referent?.- Resolution Methodology and Algorithms.- Applying Backpropagation Networks to Anaphor Resolution.- Improving Coreference Resolution Using Bridging Reference Resolution and Automatically Acquired Synonyms.- Evaluating Hybrid Versus Data-Driven Coreference Resolution.- Computational Systems and Applications.- Automatic Anaphora Resolution for Norwegian (ARN).- "Who Are We Talking About?" Tracking the Referent in a Question Answering Series.- Anaphora Resolution: To What Extent Does It Help NLP Applications?.