Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
Computational Linguistics
Centering: a framework for modeling the local coherence of discourse
Computational Linguistics
Limited attention and discourse structure
Computational Linguistics
Toward a synthesis of two accounts of discourse structure
Computational Linguistics
The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.
The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.
Planning text for advisory dialogues: capturing intentional and rhetorical information
Computational Linguistics
A corpus-based investigation of definite description use
Computational Linguistics
Centering in-the-large: computing referential discourse segments
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
Anaphora resolution: short-term memory and focusing
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Resolving bridging references in unrestricted text
ANARESOLUTION '97 Proceedings of a Workshop on Operational Factors in Practical, Robust Anaphora Resolution for Unrestricted Texts
An empirically based system for processing definite descriptions
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
Centering: A Parametric Theory and Its Instantiations
Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Nuclear accent placement and other prosodic parameters as cues to pronoun resolution
DAARC'07 Proceedings of the 6th discourse anaphora and anaphor resolution conference on Anaphora: analysis, algorithms and applications
Phrase detectives: Utilizing collective intelligence for internet-scale language resource creation
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) - Special section on internet-scale human problem solving and regular papers
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Our corpus of descriptive text contains a significant number of long-distance pronominal references (8.4% of the total). In order to account for how these pronouns are intepreted, we re-examine Grosz and Sidner's theory of the attentional state, and in particular the use of the global focus to supplement centering theory. Our corpus evidence concerning these long-distance pronominal references, as well as studies of the use of descriptions, proper names and ambiguous uses of pronouns, lead us to conclude that a discourse focus stack mechanism of the type proposed by Sidner is essential to account for the use of these referring expressions. We suggest revising the Grosz & Sidner framework by allowing for the possibility that an entity in a focus space may have special status.