Anaphora Processing and Applications

Distribution of anaphora in natural language and the complexity of its resolution have resulted in a wide range of disciplines focusing their research on this grammatical phenomenon. It has emerged as one of the most productive topics of multi- and int- disciplinary research such as cognitive science, artificial intelligence and human language technology, theoretical, cognitive, corpus and computational linguistics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. Anaphora plays a major role in understanding a language and also accounts for the cohesion of a text. Correct interpretation of anaphora is necessary in all high-level natural language pr- essing applications. Given the growing importance of the study of anaphora in the last few decades, it has emerged as the frontier area of research. This is evident from the high-quality th submissions received for the 7 DAARC from where the 10 excellent reports on - search findings are selected for this volume. These are the regular papers that were presented at DAARC.

Klappentext

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009, held in Goa, India, in November 2009.

The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on resolution methodology, computational applications, language analysis, and human processing.

Inhalt
Resolution Methodology.- Why Would a Robot Make Use of Pronouns? An Evolutionary Investigation of the Emergence of Pronominal Anaphora.- Automatic Recognition of the Function of Singular Neuter Pronouns in Texts and Spoken Data.- A Deeper Look into Features for Coreference Resolution.- Computational Applications.- Coreference Resolution on Blogs and Commented News.- Identification of Similar Documents Using Coherent Chunks.- Language Analysis.- Binding without Identity: Towards a Unified Semantics for Bound and Exempt Anaphors.- The Doubly Marked Reflexive in Chinese.- Human Processing.- Definiteness Marking Shows Late Effects during Discourse Processing: Evidence from ERPs.- Pronoun Resolution to Commanders and Recessors: A View from Event-Related Brain Potentials.- Effects of Anaphoric Dependencies and Semantic Representations on Pronoun Interpretation.