A Formal Approach To Discourse Anaphora

Author : Bonnie Lynn Webber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
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Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315403328

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First published in 1979, this book starts from the perspective that dealing with anaphoric language can be decomposed into two complementary tasks: 1. identifying what a text potentially makes available for anaphoric reference and 2. constraining the candidate set of a given anaphoric expression down to one possible choice. The author argues there is an intimate connection between formal sentential analysis and the synthesis of an appropriate conceptual model of the discourse. Some of the issues with the creation of this conceptual model are discussed in the second chapter, which follows a background to the thesis that catalogues the types of anaphoric expression available in English and lists the types of things that can be referred to anaphorically. The third and fourth chapters examine two types of anaphoric expression that do not refer to non-linguistic entities. The final chapter details three areas into which this research could potentially be extended. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

Author : Bonnie Lynn Webber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Anaphora (Linguistics)
ISBN : OCLC:227498396

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A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora by Bonnie Lynn Webber Pdf

Extended natural language communication between a person engaged in solving a problem or seeking information and a machine providing assistance requires the machine to be able to deal with anaphoric language in a perspicuous, transportable non-ad hoc way. This report takes the view that dealing with anaphoric language can be decomposed into two complementary tasks: (1) identifying what a text potentially makes available for anaphoric reference; and (2) constraining the candidate set of a given anaphoric expression down to one possible choice. The second task has been called the 'Anaphor resolution' problem and, to date, has stimulated much research in psychology and artificial intelligence natural language understanding. The focus of this report is the first task - that of identifying what a text makes available for anaphoric reference and how it does so.

Author : Simon Philip Botley,Tony McEnery
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298904

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Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora by Simon Philip Botley,Tony McEnery Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:797729918

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Approaches to Discourse Anaphora by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monika Schwarz-Friese,Manfred Consten,Mareile Knees
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902723096X

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Anaphors in Text by Monika Schwarz-Friese,Manfred Consten,Mareile Knees Pdf

This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various linguistic subdisciplines. This is reflected in this book as it methodically covers broadly invested approaches from cognitive, neurolinguistic, formal and computational perspectives, each contribution representing the respective 'state of the art' on a high theoretical and empirical level. The volume contains three thematic parts: Anaphors in Cognitive, Text- and Discourse Linguistics; The Syntax and Semantics of Anaphors; and Neurolinguistic Studies on the reception of anaphoric reference. The contributions investigate several Indo-European languages.

Author : Ruslan Mitkov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317881810

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Anaphora Resolution by Ruslan Mitkov Pdf

Teaching computers to solve language problems is one of the major challenges of natural language processing. There is a large amount of interesting research devoted to this field. This book fills an existing gap in the literature with an up-to-date survey of the field, including the author’s own contributions. A number of different fields overlap in anaphora resolution – computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and artificial intelligence. This book begins by introducing basic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods and approaches, recent developments and applications, and future directions. It addresses various issues related to the practical implementation of anaphora systems, such as rules employed, algorithms implemented or evaluation techniques used. This is an ideal reference book for students and researchers in this particular area of computational linguistics. Since anaphora resolution is vital for the development of any practical NLP system, the book will be of interest to readers from both academia and industry.

Author : Francis Cornish
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198700288

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Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding by Francis Cornish Pdf

"This was a different man," said Mr Welbecker. "Listen! This man was called Hamlet and his uncle had killed his father because he wanted to marry his mother.""What did he want to marry his mother for?" said William. "I've never heard of anyone wanting to marry their mother."*In almost any conversation the meaning of what is said depends on the listener seeing how some words refer to what has already been said, and that others must be related to the characteristics of time, place, or person of the situation around which the conversation revolves. These modes ofreference, anaphora and deixis respectively, involve surprisingly complicated cognitive and syntactic processes, which people (normally) perform easily and unerringly. But they present formidable problems for the linguist and cognitive scientist trying to explain precisely how comprehension isachieved. Anaphora and deixis are thus a central research focus in syntactic theory, while understanding and modelling their operation in discourse are important targets in computational linguistics and cognitive science. In this ambitious work, Francis Cornish sets out an original theory ofanaphora and deixis, and proposes a new and elegant theoretical model to represent the transfer of meaning in discourse.Dr Cornish considers anaphoric reference in discourse from both psychological and linguistic perspectives. He argues that anaphora and deixis are essentially parts of integrative discourse procedures that facilitate the linking of representations held in working memory. He brings together work bylinguists, formal semanticists, psychologists, and researchers in artificial intelligence, as well as drawing on his own extensive experimental work on a variety of corpora of different genres in French and English.Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding will interest researchers and advanced students in a variety of fields within and outside linguistics, including cognitive science, artificial intelligence, syntactic theory, formal semantics, and the analysis of discourse.[* from William - The Pirate by Richmal Crompton, London, Macmillan, 1932]

Author : Francis Cornish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317421511

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Anaphoric Relations in English and French by Francis Cornish Pdf

First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interaction between grammar and discourse. Studies of anaphora taking a largely ‘textual’ approach to the subject have tended to underestimate the effect upon its formation of referential and discourse factors, while studies framed within a psycholinguistic and computational perspective have been inclined to minimise the importance of the purely linguistic features connected with anaphora. This volume places the study of anaphora upon a firmer foundation by examining both its nature and functions in discourse, by pinpointing the range of factors relevant to its operation in the two languages under study, and by attempting to relate the textual and interactional perspectives within a more comprehensive framework.

Author : Elin McCready,Katsuhiko Yabushita,Kei Yoshimoto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401788137

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Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics by Elin McCready,Katsuhiko Yabushita,Kei Yoshimoto Pdf

This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.

Author : WEI ZHAO
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781631815461

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THE GENERATION OF BRIDGING ANAPHORA IN STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS DISCOURSE by WEI ZHAO Pdf

This study mainly focuses on the revision and extension of two Rules of Standard Centering Theory (Pronoun Rule and Transition Rule) to develop the constraints on the generation algorithm of bridging anaphora (BA) in stream-of-consciousness (SOC) discourse from a revised Centering perspective by incorporating the revised neo-Gricean pragmatic M-principle into the standard Centering. The Centering Theory combined with the revised neo-Gricean pragmatic M-principle is supposed to impose some grammatical and pragmatic constraints on backward-looking center realization and movement. It provides theoretical rationale for an account of constraints on full noun phrase and elliptical zero pronoun bridging anaphora generation in terms of the interaction and the division of labor between syntax and pragmatics. As to both, one cannot alone handle bridging anaphora without the other. Even though syntax and pragmatics operate at distinct levels of linguistic explanation, they appear to interact systematically in the case of bridging anaphora generation. On the one hand, syntax sets certain restrictions on salience and distributions of bridging anaphora and regulates the part of interpretation which is related to grammatical structure. On the other hand, the choice of bridging anaphoric expressions by writers and their interpretation by readers heavily dependents on preference which is regulated by the M-principle of language use and communication. Hence, the bridging anaphora generation algorithm based on the incorporation of the revised neo-Gricean pragmatic M-principle of communication into Centering provides a neat and reasonable explanation for bridging full noun phrase and elliptical zero pronoun generation.

Author : Yan Huang
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198235283

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Anaphora by Yan Huang Pdf

(Publisher-supplied data) Yan Huang is Reader in Linguistics, Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading.

Author : Mukesh Saraswat,Sarbani Roy,Chandreyee Chowdhury,Amir H. Gandomi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811653483

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Proceedings of International Conference on Data Science and Applications by Mukesh Saraswat,Sarbani Roy,Chandreyee Chowdhury,Amir H. Gandomi Pdf

This book gathers outstanding papers presented at the International Conference on Data Science and Applications (ICDSA 2021), organized by Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS) and Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, from April 10 to 11, 2021. It covers theoretical and empirical developments in various areas of big data analytics, big data technologies, decision tree learning, wireless communication, wireless sensor networking, bioinformatics and systems, artificial neural networks, deep learning, genetic algorithms, data mining, fuzzy logic, optimization algorithms, image processing, computational intelligence in civil engineering, and creative computing.

Author : Massimo Poesio,Roland Stuckardt,Yannick Versley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662479094

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Anaphora Resolution by Massimo Poesio,Roland Stuckardt,Yannick Versley Pdf

This book lays out a path leading from the linguistic and cognitive basics, to classical rule-based and machine learning algorithms, to today’s state-of-the-art approaches, which use advanced empirically grounded techniques, automatic knowledge acquisition, and refined linguistic modeling to make a real difference in real-world applications. Anaphora and coreference resolution both refer to the process of linking textual phrases (and, consequently, the information attached to them) within as well as across sentence boundaries, and to the same discourse referent. The book offers an overview of recent research advances, focusing on practical, operational approaches and their applications. In part I (Background), it provides a general introduction, which succinctly summarizes the linguistic, cognitive, and computational foundations of anaphora processing and the key classical rule- and machine-learning-based anaphora resolution algorithms. Acknowledging the central importance of shared resources, part II (Resources) covers annotated corpora, formal evaluation, preprocessing technology, and off-the-shelf anaphora resolution systems. Part III (Algorithms) provides a thorough description of state-of-the-art anaphora resolution algorithms, covering enhanced machine learning methods as well as techniques for accomplishing important subtasks such as mention detection and acquisition of relevant knowledge. Part IV (Applications) deals with a selection of important anaphora and coreference resolution applications, discussing particular scenarios in diverse domains and distilling a best-practice model for systematically approaching new application cases. In the concluding part V (Outlook), based on a survey conducted among the contributing authors, the prospects of the research field of anaphora processing are discussed, and promising new areas of interdisciplinary cooperation and emerging application scenarios are identified. Given the book’s design, it can be used both as an accompanying text for advanced lectures in computational linguistics, natural language engineering, and computer science, and as a reference work for research and independent study. It addresses an audience that includes academic researchers, university lecturers, postgraduate students, advanced undergraduate students, industrial researchers, and software engineers.

Author : Muskan Garg,Sandeep Kumar,Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781003800484

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Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval by Muskan Garg,Sandeep Kumar,Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar Pdf

This book presents the basics and recent advancements in natural language processing and information retrieval in a single volume. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in interdisciplinary areas of electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer engineering, and information technology. This text emphasizes the existing problem domains and possible new directions in natural language processing and information retrieval. It discusses the importance of information retrieval with the integration of machine learning, deep learning, and word embedding. This approach supports the quick evaluation of real-time data. It covers important topics including rumor detection techniques, sentiment analysis using graph-based techniques, social media data analysis, and language-independent text mining. Features: • Covers aspects of information retrieval in different areas including healthcare, data analysis, and machine translation • Discusses recent advancements in language- and domain-independent information extraction from textual and/or multimodal data • Explains models including decision making, random walk, knowledge graphs, word embedding, n-grams, and frequent pattern mining • Provides integrated approaches of machine learning, deep learning, and word embedding for natural language processing • Covers latest datasets for natural language processing and information retrieval for social media like Twitter The text is primarily written for graduate students and academic researchers in interdisciplinary areas of electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer engineering, and information technology.

Author : Francis Cornish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317421528

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Anaphoric Relations in English and French by Francis Cornish Pdf

First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interaction between grammar and discourse. Studies of anaphora taking a largely ‘textual’ approach to the subject have tended to underestimate the effect upon its formation of referential and discourse factors, while studies framed within a psycholinguistic and computational perspective have been inclined to minimise the importance of the purely linguistic features connected with anaphora. This volume places the study of anaphora upon a firmer foundation by examining both its nature and functions in discourse, by pinpointing the range of factors relevant to its operation in the two languages under study, and by attempting to relate the textual and interactional perspectives within a more comprehensive framework.