Antonio Branco (Ed.)



Anaphora: Analysis,
Algorithms
and Applications
6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution
Colloquium, DAARC 2007
Lagos, Portugal, March 29-30, 2007
Selected Papers




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                         T able of Contents


H uman Processing and Performance
Nuclear Accent Placement and Other Prosodic Parameters as Cues to
P ronoun Resolution                                                     1
    Ekaterina Jasinskaja, Ulrike Kölsch, and Jörg Mayer

Empirically Assessing Effects of the Right Frontier Constraint         15
  Anke Holler and Lisa Irmen

P ronoun Resolution and the Influence of Syntactic and Semantic
Information on Discourse Prominence                                    28
    Ralph Rose


L anguage Analysis and Representation
A naphora Resolution as Equality by Default                            44
   Ariel Cohen

Null Subjects Are Reflexives, Not Pronouns                             59
   Antonio Branco

Using Very Large Parsed Corpora and Judgment Data to Classify Verb
Reflexivity
                                                                       77
   Erik-Jan Smits, Petra Hendriks, and Jennifer Spenader

An Empirical Investigation of the Relation Between Coreference
and Quotations: Can a Pronoun Located in Quotations Find Its
Referent?
                                                                       94
   Shana Watters and Jeanette Gundel


R esolution Methodology and Algorithms
Applying Backpropagation Networks to Anaphor Resolution                107
  Roland Stuckardt

Improving Coreference Resolution Using Bridging Reference Resolution
and Automatically Acquired Synonyms                                    125
   Ryohei Sasano, Daisuke Kawahara, and Sadao Kurohashi

E valuating Hybrid Versus Data-Driven Coreference Resolution           137
    Iris Hendrickx, Veronique Hoste, and Walter Daelemans
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C omputational Systems and Applications
A utomatic Anaphora Resolution for Norwegian (ARN)                  151
    Gordana Ilic Holen

"Who Are We Talking About?" Tracking the Referent in a Question
Answering Series                                                    167
  Matteo Negri and Milen Kouylekov

A naphora Resolution: To What Extent Does It Help NLP
Applications?                                                       179
   Ruslan Mitkov, Richard Evans, Constantin Oräsan, Le An Ha, and
    Viktor Pekar


A uthor Index                                                       191