Malay anaphor and antecedent candidate identification: a proposed solution

  • Authors:

  • Noorhuzaimi Karimah Mohd Noor;Shahrul Azman Noah;Mohd Juzaiddin Ab Aziz;Mohd Pouzi Hamzah

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Computer Systems & Software Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Pahang, Kuantan, Malaysia and Knowledge Technology Research Group, Faculty of Technology and Information Science ...;Knowledge Technology Research Group, Faculty of Technology and Information Science, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Bangi, Malaysia;Knowledge Technology Research Group, Faculty of Technology and Information Science, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Bangi, Malaysia;Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science Technology, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • ACIIDS'12 Proceedings of the 4th Asian conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper discusses on Malay language anaphor and antecedent candidate determination using the knowledge-poor techniques. The process to determine the candidate for anaphor and antecedent is important because the usage of pronouns in a text is not always considered as an anaphor. Sometimes pronoun referred to something outside the context or does not refer to any situation in the text. Such a situation is also exhibited in the use of pronouns in Malay language. Therefore, certain rules must be issued to identify the antecedent and anaphor candidate. Pronoun usage in Malay language does indicate the gender of the person, but to distinguish the status of the person such as imperial family, honorable people and common people. Thus, generic rules that have been used by other languages cannot simply be adapted for Malay language. The proposed solution concerns with the distance of each candidate and location of the Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) used to determine the anaphor candidate. As such, syntactic information, semantic information and distance of anaphor-antecedent are seen important to determine the antecedent candidate.