Anaphora Discourse And Understanding

Author : Francis Cornish
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Barbara A. Fox
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229274

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Studies in Anaphora by Barbara A. Fox Pdf

The last 15 years has seen an explosion of research on the topic of anaphora. Studies of anaphora have been important to our understanding of cognitive processes, the relationships between social interaction and grammar, and of directionality in diachronic change. The contributions to this volume represent the “next generation” of studies in anaphora — defined broadly as those morpho-syntactic forms available to speakers for formulating reference — taking as their starting point the foundation of research done in the 1980s. These studies examine in detail, and with a richness of methods and theories, what patterns of anaphoric usage can reveal to us about cognition, social interaction, and language change.

Author : John Hinds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038791138

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Anaphora in Discourse by John Hinds Pdf

Author : Simon Philip Botley,Tony McEnery
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Barbara A. Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521439906

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Discourse Structure and Anaphora by Barbara A. Fox Pdf

Barbara Fox's thoughtful study examines the use of anaphora in both written and spoken discourse. Any treatment of anaphora must consider the hierarchical of its source texts-type. Texts may be produced and heard or read linearly, but they are designed and understood hierarchically. Discourse Structure and Anaphora goes beyond the information processing concerns of cognitive science to assess the critical role played in all text-types by social, interactional and affective factors. It also considers the fact that texts are organised by socially accepted conventions. Using conversation analysis and rhetorical structure analysis, this book looks at the distribution of pronouns and full noun phrases in three different genres of English, taking data from naturally occurring face-to-face and telephone conversations, small newspaper and magazine articles and a psychoanalytic biography.

Author : Ruslan Mitkov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317881803

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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 : Bonnie Lynn Webber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315403328

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A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora by Bonnie Lynn Webber Pdf

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 : António Branco,Tony McEnery,Ruslan Mitkov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294678

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Anaphora Processing by António Branco,Tony McEnery,Ruslan Mitkov Pdf

Anaphora processing is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines. The correct interpretation of anaphora has also become increasingly important for real-world natural language processing applications, including machine translation, automatic abstracting, information extraction and question answering. This volume provides a unique overview of the processing of anaphora from a multi- and inter-disciplinary angle. It will be of interest and practical use to readers from fields as diverse as theoretical linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, human language technology, psycholinguistics, cognitive science and translation studies. The readership includes but is not limited to university lecturers, researchers, postgraduate and senior undergraduate students.

Author : Simon Botley,Tony McEnery
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027222725

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Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora by Simon 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 : Anke Holler,Katja Suckow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110464108

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Empirical Perspectives on Anaphora Resolution by Anke Holler,Katja Suckow Pdf

Traditionally, anaphor resolution focused on structural cues of the antecedent. Recently, the interaction between discourse factors and information structure affecting antecedent salience has been more thoroughly explored. This volume depicts selected peer-reviewed research papers that tackle issues in anaphor resolution from theoretical, empirical and experimental perspectives. These collected articles present a wide spectrum of cross-linguistic data (Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, Yurakaré) and also offer new results from L1 and L2 acquisition studies. Data interpretation span from typological to psycholinguistic viewpoints and are related to recent developments in linguistic theory. One data analysis puts the issue of anaphor resolution in a historical context. The experimental findings are complemented by reviews of the current literature on the role of discourse units. This volume gives a comprehensive overview of the state of discussion how the interaction between information structure and contextual discourse affects salience. That's why it will be welcomed by all linguists and psycholinguists who are theoretically and / or experimentally investigating several aspects of anaphor resolution.

Author : Graeme Hirst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Anaphora (Linguistics).
ISBN : UCSC:32106005316325

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Anaphora in Natural Language Understanding by Graeme Hirst Pdf

Author : Georgia Fotiadou,Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249326

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Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution by Georgia Fotiadou,Ianthi Maria Tsimpli Pdf

Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects explores anaphora resolution from different perspectives, and investigates various aspects of the phenomenon, as contributions include research protocols that combine old and new experimental methodologies as well as theoretical and empirical approaches. A central theme across volume contributions are the multiple linguistic and extralinguistic factors that constrain anaphora resolution, its processing and acquisition by a variety of populations (children and adults, monolinguals, bilinguals and second language learners) as well as the mechanisms underlying anaphora resolution. Anaphora resolution constitutes an ideal environment to test the interaction between domain-general cognitive systems and domain-specific linguistic sub-routines, since variability in referential preferences is not related to binding constraints (an integral part of syntax per se) but is closely tied to processing (functional constraints) modulated by the integration of discourse-filtered information.

Author : Francis Cornish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,5 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.

Author : Bonnie Lynn Webber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Alan Garnham
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134951024

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Mental Models and the Interpretation of Anaphora by Alan Garnham Pdf

The interpretation of anaphora - how we interpret expressions such as definite pronouns (he, she, it) and verbal elliptical phrases (such as "did so, too") in the course of ordinary conversation or reading - is an important aspect of language comprehension. In this book the author examines the research and evidence on anaphor interpretation within the context of the mental models theory of comprehension, arguing that the notion of a mental model is essential to the detailed description of the processes of anaphor resolution. The general philosophy of the mental models approach and the nature of mental models themselves and their role in language processing is discussed, followed by a review of methodological issues that bear on the interpretation of psychological research findings. Against this background, the author's own research on areas such as deep and surface anaphora, reference into anaphoric islands, the role of implicit causality in anaphor resolution and the use of pronouns to refer to characters introduced by stereotyped role names is presented. At all times the author's research is set within the context of the general literature on anaphor resolution derived from the disciplines of linguistics, psycholinguistics, philosophy and computational linguistics, ensuring that the book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in these fields.