Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
Readings in natural language processing
Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Languages
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Understanding Natural Language
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Toward A Model Of Children''s Story Comprehension
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Truth Maintenance Systems for Problem Solving
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A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge
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Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
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Computational Linguistics
Modeling the user's plans and goals
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on user modeling
High level knowledge sources in usable speech recognition systems
Communications of the ACM
An algorithm for pronominal anaphora resolution
Computational Linguistics
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Information extraction from case law and retrieval of prior cases
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on AI and law
Japanese discourse and the process of centering
Computational Linguistics
Conceptions of limited attention and discourse focus
Computational Linguistics
Automatic representation of the semantic relationships corresponding to a French surface expression
ANLC '83 Proceedings of the first conference on Applied natural language processing
The multimedia articulation of answers in a natural language database query system
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
A pragmatics-based approach to ellipsis resolution
Computational Linguistics
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An algorithm to co-ordinate anaphora resolution and PPS disambiguation process
EACL '95 Proceedings of the seventh conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
The rhetorical parsing of natural language texts
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
EACL '83 Proceedings of the first conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Evaluating a focus-based approach to anaphora resolution
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
A property-sharing constraint in Centering
ACL '86 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A centering approach to pronouns
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A pragmatics-based approach to understanding intersentential ellipsis
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Providing a unified account of definite noun phrases in discourse
ACL '83 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Resolving anaphors in embedded sentences
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An empirical investigation of the relation between discourse structure and co-reference
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
An integrated model for anaphora resolution
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
User models: the problem of disparity
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
Anaphora resolution: a multi-strategy approach
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Morphology and cross dependencies in the synthesis of personal pronouns in Romance languages
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Towards machine translation using contextual information
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Using linguistic, world, and contextual knowledge in a plan recognition model of dialogue
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Using discourse predictions for ambiguity resolution
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
A hierarchical account of referential accessibility
ACL '00 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Improving pronoun resolution by incorporating coreferential information of candidates
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
References to graphical objects in interactive multimodal queries
Knowledge-Based Systems
A machine learning approach to identification and resolution of one-anaphora
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Employing the centering theory in pronoun resolution from the semantic perspective
EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 2 - Volume 2
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
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Recent studies in both artificial intelligence and linguistics have demonstrated the need for a theory of the comprehension of anaphoric expressions, a theory that accounts for the role of syntactic and semantic effects, as well as inferential knowledge in explaining how anaphors are understood. In this paper a new approach, based on a theory of the process of focusing on parts of the discourse, is used to explain the interpretation of anaphors. The concept of a speaker's foci is defined, and their use is demonstrated in choosing the interpretations of personal pronouns. The rules for choosing interpretations are stated within a framework that shows: how to control search in inferring by a new method called constraint checking; how to take advantage of syntactic, semantic and discourse constraints on interpretation; and how to generalize the treatment of personal pronouns, to serve as a framework for the theory of interpretation for all anaphors.