Anaphora Processing and Applications
8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2011, Faro Portugal, October 6-7, 2011. Revised Selected Papers
Published on 20. December 2011
X, 199 pages
978-3-642-25917-3 (ISBN)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2011, held in Faro, Portugal, in October 2011. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computational resolution methodology and systems; language analysis and representation; and human processing and performance.
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Anaphora Processing and Applications
8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2011, Faro Portugal, October 6-7, 2011. Revised Selected Papers
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Preface
- Organisation
- Table of Contents
- Computational Resolution Methodology and Systems
- Analysis and Reference Resolution of Bridge Anaphora across Different Text Genres
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Annotation of Bridge Relations
- Analysis
- Experiments
- Results
- Conclusion
- References
- NADA: A Robust System for Non-referential Pronoun Detection
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Supervised Non-referential Detection
- Lexical Features
- Web Count Features
- Experimental Details
- Results
- Conclusion
- References
- Resolving Noun Phrase Coreference in Czech
- Introduction
- Data
- Related Work
- Extracted Features
- Data Preparation for Machine Learning
- Training and Resolving
- Maximum Entropy Classifier
- Maximum Entropy Ranker
- Perceptron Ranker
- Evaluation and Model Analysis
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Leveraging Different Meronym Discovery Methods for Bridging Resolution in French
- Introduction
- DEDE: A French Corpus for Bridging Descriptions
- Methods for Meronymy Extraction
- A Static Lexical Database
- Querying Meronyms from the Web
- Extracting Meronyms from Raw Text
- Experiments on Bridging Resolution
- Task and System Setup
- Corpus Preprocessing
- Evaluation and Results
- Error Analysis
- Web-Based Method vs. Extraction from Text
- Related Work
- Conclusion and Perspectives
- References
- Multiobjective Simulated Annealing Based Approach for Feature Selection in Anaphora Resolution
- Introduction
- Background: Optimizing for Anaphora Resolution
- Optimization with Simulated Annealing
- Multi-objective Optimization
- The SA Based MOO Algorithm: AMOSA
- Algorithm for Feature Selection in Anaphora Resolution
- State Representation and Archive Initialization
- Fitness Computation
- Mutation Operation
- Methods
- The BART System
- The Data Sets
- Simulated Annealing Parameter Setting
- Results
- Discussion and Conclusions
- References
- Can Projected Chains in Parallel Corpora Help Coreference Resolution?
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Methodology
- Automatic Corpus Annotation
- Alignment
- Coreference Resolution for Portuguese
- Adaptation to Other Languages
- Evaluation
- Instantiation of the System
- Evaluation of the System
- Error Analysis
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Language Analysis and Representation
- Abstract Anaphors in Appositive Relative Clauses in Romanian
- Introduction
- The Data and Some Terminological Specifications
- Events and Event Anaphora
- ARCs of Type $dupa care$ (`after which')
- ARCs of Type $la care$ (`to which')
- Facts and Anaphors of Facts
- The $drept pentru care$ (`for which') Type
- The $de unde$ (`from where') Type
- An Anaphor for Facts, Propositions and Outcomes: $ceea ce$ (`which')
- $Ceea ce$ as an Anaphor of Facts
- $Ceea ce$ as an Anaphor of Propositions
- $Ceea ce$ as an Anaphor of Outcomes
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- The Choice between Verbal Anaphors in Discourse
- Introduction
- Register
- Semantic Constraints on Possible Antecedents
- Syntactic Constraints
- Factors Affecting the Choice of Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis
- Factors Affecting the Choice of do $it/this/that$
- Factors Affecting the Choice of $do so$
- Conclusion
- References
- Abstract Anaphors in German and English
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Our Study
- The Corpus
- Methodological Considerations
- Annotation Procedure
- Results
- Avoidance of Pronominal Abstract Anaphors in English
- Preference of Demonstrative Pronouns in English
- Function
- Position
- Discussion
- Future Steps
- References
- Nominal Associative Anaphors - A Text-Based Analysis at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
- Nominal Associative Anaphors
- Theoretical Background for the Analysis
- The Theory of Concept Types and Determination
- Approaches to Associative Anaphors
- Preliminary Guidelines for the Annotation of NAAs
- The Case Study
- Setting of the Study
- Analysis of the Data
- Interpretation of the Results
- Critical Discussion of the Study
- Conclusion
- References
- Human Processing and Performance
- Perspective in the Processing of the Chinese Reflexive $ziji$ : ERP Evidence
- Introduction
- Long-Distance Binding of $ziji$
- Blocking Effect
- Verb-Inherent Restriction
- ERPs and Reflexivity
- ERP Experiment
- Methods and Materials
- Results
- General Discussion
- References
- Effects of Reference Form on Frequency of Mentionand Rate of Pronominalization
- Introduction
- English Indefinite this and German so'n
- The Sentence-Completion Experiments
- Method, Procedure and Data Analysis
- Results
- Conclusion
- References
- The Cataphoric Potential of Indefinites in German
- Introduction
- Indefinite Demonstrative dieser
- Referential Properties : Specificity of Indefinite dieser
- Pilot Study 1: Discourse Properties of Indefinite dieser
- Discussion
- Pilot Study 2: Discourse Effects of Specific Indefinite $dieser$ vs. Specific ein
- Methodology, Experimental Design
- Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Semantic and Structural Constraints on the Resolution of Ambiguous Personal Pronouns - A Psycholinguistic Study
- Introduction
- Semantic Constraint or Cognitive Principle: Animacy
- Experiment 1a: Visual-World Eye-Tracking
- Experiment 1b: Referent-Assignment Task
- Semantic or Structural Constraints: Connectives
- Experiment 2: The Semantic of Connectives
- Experiment 3: Clausal Structure
- General Discussion
- References
- Exploring the Lexical and Acoustic Consequences of Referential Predictability
- Introduction
- Overview of Experiments
- Experiment 1: Prompt Pronoun
- Participants, Materials and Design
- Coding
- Results and Discussion
- Experiment 2: No Prompt Pronoun
- Participants, Materials and Design, Coding
- Results and Discussion: Who Is Mentioned and How
- Why Do Actives and Passives Differ with Respect to Likelihood-of-Mention?
- Results and Discussion: Acoustic Duration of Names
- Conclusions
- References
- Clitics in Spanish Agrammatic Aphasia: A Study of the Production of Unaccusative, Reflexive and Object Clitics
- Introduction
- Clitics through Their Syntactic Representation
- SE Anaphors: Unaccusative and Reflexive Clitics
- Direct Object Pronouns
- Clitic Production in Agrammatic Aphasia
- Method
- Participants
- Materials
- Procedure
- Scoring
- Data Analysis
- Results
- Quantitative Analysis
- Qualitative Analysis
- Discussion
- References
- Author Index
