| Title | Can Anaphoric Definite Descriptions be Replaced by Pronouns? |
| Author(s) |
Judita Preiss, Caroline Gasperin, Ted Briscoe
University of Cambridge |
| Session | O31-EW |
| Abstract | We investigate the hypothesis that a pronoun is used in discourse, when its antecedent is in the focus of the discourse. We create a corpus of `replaced anaphoric definite descriptions', where occurrences of definite descriptions are replaced with a corresponding pronoun. We use the (Lappin, 1994) anaphora resolution algorithm on the new corpus, and obtain a much lower performance than when the corpus only contains genuine pronouns, thus supporting the hypothesis. |
| Keyword(s) | Definite descriptions, anaphora resolution, pronouns |
| Language(s) | English |
| Full Paper | 718.pdf |