... 2009.c2009 Association for Computational Linguistics EM WorksforPronounAnaphora Resolution Eugene Charniak and Micha ElsnerBrown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP)Brown ... importantly, is thesystem’s performance. Remarkably, there are veryfew systems for actually doing pronoun anaphora available on the web. By emailing the corpora-list the other members of the list ... rank potential an-tecedents for pronouns. However despite beingthe best-performing (on pronouns) of the existingsystems, there is a remarkable lack of publishedinformation on its innards.BART...
... a pronounanaphora resolu-tion system based on FHMMs. This generative sys-tem incrementally resolves pronounanaphora withan entity buffer carrying forward mention features.The system performs ... tworeasons. F irstly, emPronouns is a publicly availablesystem with high accuracy in pronoun resolution. Secondly, it is necessary for us to demonstrate oursystem has strong empirical superiority ... available system emPronouns2. It is a2the available system in fact only includes the testing part.Thus, it may be unfair to compare emPr onouns this way withSystem BNEWS NPAP ER NWIREemPronouns...
... WINS as a Solution for NetBIOS Name Resolution 29 Module 5: WINS as a Solution for NetBIOS Name Resolution 17 Discussion: Evaluating WINS Functional Requirements Remote Access ServerWindows ... servers to forward unresolved DNS queries to WINS servers for resolution of host names that have dynamic IP addresses. DNS resolutionfor resources located on other operating systems, such ... NetBIOS name service. Emphasize that client performance issues, and the requirements for redundancy and replication, determine the number and placement of WINS servers. • Emphasize that all versions...
... pronominal NP resolution in this model. 4 PronounResolution There are also dichotomous views in the literature concerning the process by which pronoun resolu- tion is performed. Theories ... to a discourse model, we account for ellipsis data that has gridlocked work on the topic. Furthermore, arguments for dichoto- mous approaches to pronounresolution are resolv- able within ... other questions for future study. One such question is how the postulated representations should be fur- ther formalized, and how reasoning with these for- malizations is to be performed. A second...
... pronominalization such that no element in an utterance can be real- ized as a pronoun unless the Cb is also realized as a pronoun, and imposes a preference ordering for op- erations on Cf, such ... mutual beliefs, that is, for their propositional content. However, pronomi- nals, with little intrinsic semantics, perform primar- ily an attentional function. Therefore pitch accented pronominals ... information quality and efficient use of limited resources. Given the serial and ephemeral nature of speech and the limits of working memory, it is most expedient to mark as salient the information-rich...
... set of i~ems in operating memory. However, because ~he reErleval ~ime is slow in opera~in~ memory, anaphora resolution is more dlfflcul~ for i~ems ~ha~ are no~ in focus. The relns~a~emen~ of ... OF ANAPHORARESOLUTION A few representative empirical studies of anaphoraresolution are described below. All the experimental par~dlgms used share the following assumptions: 1) human memory ... available for further computations. This paper provides a cognitive basis foranaphora resolution and focusing. Human memory is divided into a short-term, an operating, and a long-term memory....
... novel one for subject prediction. Wedemonstrate that treating zero anaphora resolution as a three-way inference problem is successful for both Italian and Japanese. We integrate the zero anaphora ... features in intra-sentential zero- anaphora are different from ones in inter-sententialzero -anaphora because in the former problem syn-tactic information between a zero pronoun and itscandidate antecedent ... detection modelThe greatest difficulty in zero anaphora resolution in comparison to, say, pronoun resolution, is zero anaphora detection. Simply relying for this on theparser is not enough: most...
... place -for- people pattern,a place stands for any persons/organisations associ-ated with it, e.g., for sports teams in (2), (3), and (4),and for the government in (7).4(7) a cardinal element ... (Markert and Nissim, 2002b)’s an-notation scheme for location names and present anannotated corpus of occurrences of country names.2.1 Annotation Scheme for Location NamesWe identify literal, metonymic,andmixed ... a place -for- event pattern, a locationname refers to an event that occurred there (e.g., us-ing the word Vietnam for the Vietnam war). In aplace -for- product pattern a place stands for a product...
... a Workshop on Opera-tional Factors in Practical, Robust Anaphora Reso-lution for Unrestricted Texts, pages 38–45, Madrid,Spain, July.Eugene Charniak and Micha Elsner. 2009. EM works forpronoun ... opinion mining system. Wepresent an analysis based on two different anaphora resolution systems. Our exper-iments on a movie review corpus demon-strate, that an unsupervised anaphora reso-lution ... & demonstrative pronouns2true positives, false positivestary regarding the extraction of impersonal anddemonstrative pronouns. This configuration yieldsstatistically significant improvements...
... zero -anaphora resolu-tion problem by decomposing it intointra-sentential and inter-sentential zero- anaphora resolution. For the former prob-lem, syntactic patterns of the appearanceof zero-pronouns ... approach the zero -anaphora resolution prob-lem by decomposing it into two subtasks: intra-sentential and inter-sentential zero -anaphora reso-lution. For the former problem, syntactic patternsin ... ofzero -anaphora resolution as the combination oftwo sub-problems, antecedent identification andanaphoricity determination, which is analogous toNP -anaphora resolution: For each zero-pronoun...
... this effort is remarkable, this paper will focus on a solution to the problem which requires considerably less effort to implement. The scope of work in lexical ambiguity resolution is very ... syntac- tic problems, it shows tremendous promise for equally impressive results in the area of semantic ambiguity res- olution. 2Such a tool would particularly useful for typing Spanish ... of problems forms a natural class, similar in origin and solvable by a single type of algorithm. In each case it is necessary to disambiguate two or more semantically distinct word-forms which...
... is necessary toresolve what zero pronouns refer to by using otherinformation such as context.Although predicate-argument structure analysisand zero -anaphora resolution are closely related,it ... onesentence before have a chance to remain), then thenumber of candidate arguments significantly de-creased to an average of 3.2 but they covered the62.5% of the referents of zero pronouns.By ... preference is afuture work for our analyzer.4 Discussions and ConclusionsWe proposed a predicate-argument structure anal-ysis that simultaneously conducts zero -anaphora resolution. By adding noun...