An empirically based system for processing definite descriptions

  • Authors:
  • Renata Vieira;Massimo Poesio

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos;University of Edinburgh

  • Venue:
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We present an implemented system for processing definite descriptions in arbitrary domains. The design of the system is based on the results of a corpus analysis previously reported, which highlighted the prevalence of discourse-new descriptions in newspaper corpora. The annotated corpus was used to extensively evaluate the proposed techniques for matching definite descriptions with their antecedents, discourse segmentation, recognizing discourse-new descriptions, and suggesting anchors for bridging descriptions.