Focusing for Pronoun Resolution in English Discourse: An Implementation
| dc.creator | Ersan, Ebru | |
| dc.creator | Akman, Varol | |
| dc.date | 1994-09-07 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:09:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:09:31Z | |
| dc.description | Anaphora resolution is one of the most active research areas in natural language processing. This study examines focusing as a tool for the resolution of pronouns which are a kind of anaphora. Focusing is a discourse phenomenon like anaphora. Candy Sidner formalized focusing in her 1979 MIT PhD thesis and devised several algorithms to resolve definite anaphora including pronouns. She presented her theory in a computational framework but did not generally implement the algorithms. Her algorithms related to focusing and pronoun resolution are implemented in this thesis. This implementation provides a better comprehension of the theory both from a conceptual and a computational point of view. The resulting program is tested on different discourse segments, and evaluation and analysis of the experiments are presented together with the statistical results. | |
| dc.description | iii + 49 pages, compressed, uuencoded Postscript file; revised version of the first author's Bilkent M.S. thesis, written under the supervision of the second author; notify Akman via e-mail (akman@cs.bilkent.edu.tr) or fax (+90-312-266-4126) if you are unable to obtain hardcopy, he'll work out something | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9409005 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9409005 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151064 | |
| dc.subject | Computation and Language | |
| dc.title | Focusing for Pronoun Resolution in English Discourse: An Implementation | |
| dc.type | text |