2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151312We present a hybrid text understanding methodology for the resolution of textual ellipsis. It integrates conceptual criteria (based on the well-formedness and conceptual strength of role chains in a terminological knowledge base) and functional constraints reflecting the utterances' information structure (based on the distinction between context-bound and unbound discourse elements). The methodological framework for text ellipsis resolution is the centering model that has been adapted to these constraints.5 pages, uuencoded gzipped PS file (see also Technical Report at: http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/public/papers/ecai96.ps.gz)Computation and Languagetext