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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Anaphora"”.
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Knowledge-rich Bridging Anaphora Resolution
Bridging anaphora resolution, the task of identifying anaphoric noun phrases (i.e., bridging anaphors) and linking them to their antecedents in a document, is crucial for machine comprehension of the relations between discourse entities for various downstream applications, such as question …
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Anaphora resolution for question answering
Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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The syntactic domain of anaphora
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics.
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Grammatical relations and anaphora in Malayalam
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1981.
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Resources for linguistically motivated Multilingual Anaphora Resolution
… resources for linguistic based multilingual anaphora resolution. This scheme has been implemented for the annotation of English and Italian data. Inter-annotator agreement studies show that the annotation scheme is relaiable. The annotated corpora have been used for the anaphora resolution …
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Dynamics of plurality in quantification and anaphora
This dissertation investigates the semantics, logic, and metaphysics of plurality, focusing especially on the issues that arise from the interpretation of different plural readings in sentences containing plural terms like ‘Kerri and Misty’ and ‘three students’. The topic has generated a good deal …
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Frame anaphora: The definite article in discourse
… nonnative speakers. This use, which I term frame anaphora, is illustrated in the following example: 'The disease is usually harmless, but the symptoms are dramatic. The use of the definite article presumes a shared knowledge that diseases have symptoms, a kind of shared generic knowledge which has …
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The theory of anaphora in Korean syntax.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics.
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Anaphora Resolution Algorithms With Category: English and Korean
… and more efficient computational algorithms for anaphora resolution, in which category combinatorics determines the actions. In those algorithms, various kinds of anaphoric expressions are resolved similarly. Through the analyses and their implementations, I hope this research can give us more …
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Behavioral and neural correlates of deep and surface anaphora
Anaphora in language is defined as an expression that refers to another expression. Hankamer & Sag 1976 and Sag & Hankamer 1984 proposed that anaphors can be divided into deep anaphors, which are resolved using a non-linguistic discourse-level interpretation of the antecedent, and surface anaphors, …
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ANAPHORA, AGREEMENT AND THE PRAGMATICS OF "RIGHT DISLOCATIONS" IN GREEK
"RIGHT DISLOCATIONS" IN GREEK ARE CLASSIFIED INTO SIX DIFFERENT CATEGORIES REFLECTING SIX DISTRICT COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS AND ARE THUS SHOWN TO BE POWERFUL COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS AND/OR DEVICES, WHICH HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EITHERAFTERTHOUGHTIVENESS OR SYNTACTIC ANOMATY. THROUGHOUT THE …
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Networks of anaphora: an essay in the syntax of pronominalization.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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the Overt Pronoun Penalty: A Processing Delay In Spanish Anaphora Comprehension
<p>Discourse coherence often relies on anaphoric expressions such as repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns. Gordon, Grosz, and Gilliom (1993) showed that repeated names are harder to process than pronouns when the antecedent is the subject of a sentence, an effect which they called the …
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Towards a computational theory of definite anaphora comprehension in English discourse
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1979.
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Universal Grammar Parameter-Setting Model Revisited: Korean Learners' Acquisition of English Anaphora
Under the rubric of Universal Grammar, researchers have attempted to use the Parameter-Setting Model to explain the intricate nature of adult second language acquisition. This dissertation investigates the validity of applying the Subset Principle in second language contexts by examining Korean …
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An investigation of second language learners' ability to resolve Anaphora in texts
This study investigated the resolution of anaphora by adult ESL learners of different proficiency levels. Two reading tests were given containing several common pro-forms. These represented two types of anaphora, NP and VP, in two conditions, context and no context. NP anaphora was presented in two …
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One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish
It is a hallmark of natural language use that the way we talk about something reflects how it is represented in the mind of our conversation partner. This thesis studies the use and cognitive processing of referring expressions like one in comparison with other expression types in spoken Danish. …
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The expression of topic continuity by noun and pronoun phrasing and zero anaphora in first-year research writing
… on the use of nouns vs. pronouns vs. zero anaphora (Ø) to express cohesion by ESL students writing in English. Previous researchers of cohesion, such as Crossley and McNamara (2010) on ESL learners with varied native languages and Yang and Sun (2012) on native Chinese-speaking students, …
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The Value of an Annotated Corpus in the Investigation of Anaphoric Pronouns : With Particular Reference to Backwards Anaphora in English.
… in particular focusing on cataphora (backwards anaphora), using the Anaphoric Treebank (AT), which is a written English corpus with discourse annotation, and other corpus data. The analysis of corpus data reveals certain coreferential cataphora patterns (in particular in the initial adverbial or …
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