An empirical investigation of the relation between discourse structure and co-reference

Authors:
Dan Cristea;Nancy Ide;Daniel Marcu;Valentin Tablan
Affiliations:
University "A. I. Cuza" Iaşi, România;Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Venue:
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Year:
2000

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Abstract

We compare the potential of two classes of linear and hierarchical models of discourse to determine co-reference links and resolve anaphors. The comparison uses a corpus of thirty texts, which were manually annotated for co-reference and discourse structure.