TY - GEN
T1 - An empirical investigation of the relation between coreference and quotations
T2 - 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2007
AU - Watters, Shana
AU - Gundel, Jeanette
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Many reference resolution studies omit anaphoric forms found in quotations, assuming that they may need special handling as there is insufficient discourse context to determine the referent. This paper reports on an empirical study performed to evaluate this assumption. Specifically, the study addresses the following questions: Are anaphoric expressions found in quotations sufficiently different to justify ignoring them, and is there enough context available for a system to determine the referents of anaphoric expressions found within quoted text? The current study focuses on the pronoun it within the Givenness Hierarchy framework of Gundel, Hedberg, and Zacharski [13]. We find that this framework can be used in most cases to locate the antecedent for referential it found in quoted text.
AB - Many reference resolution studies omit anaphoric forms found in quotations, assuming that they may need special handling as there is insufficient discourse context to determine the referent. This paper reports on an empirical study performed to evaluate this assumption. Specifically, the study addresses the following questions: Are anaphoric expressions found in quotations sufficiently different to justify ignoring them, and is there enough context available for a system to determine the referents of anaphoric expressions found within quoted text? The current study focuses on the pronoun it within the Givenness Hierarchy framework of Gundel, Hedberg, and Zacharski [13]. We find that this framework can be used in most cases to locate the antecedent for referential it found in quoted text.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-71412-5_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-71412-5_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:37249019540
SN - 9783540714118
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 94
EP - 106
BT - Anaphora
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 29 March 2007 through 30 March 2007
ER -