Anaphora Processing and Applications: 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009 Goa, India, November 5-6, 2009 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Dan Cristea, Emanuel Dima, Corina Dima (auth.), Sobha Lalitha Devi, António Branco, Ruslan Mitkov (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 139
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5847 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009, held in Goa, India, in November 2009.

The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on resolution methodology, computational applications, language analysis, and human processing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Why Would a Robot Make Use of Pronouns? An Evolutionary Investigation of the Emergence of Pronominal Anaphora....Pages 1-14
Automatic Recognition of the Function of Singular Neuter Pronouns in Texts and Spoken Data....Pages 15-28
A Deeper Look into Features for Coreference Resolution....Pages 29-42
Coreference Resolution on Blogs and Commented News....Pages 43-53
Identification of Similar Documents Using Coherent Chunks....Pages 54-68
Binding without Identity: Towards a Unified Semantics for Bound and Exempt Anaphors....Pages 69-79
The Doubly Marked Reflexive in Chinese....Pages 80-90
Definiteness Marking Shows Late Effects during Discourse Processing: Evidence from ERPs....Pages 91-106
Pronoun Resolution to Commanders and Recessors: A View from Event-Related Brain Potentials....Pages 107-120
Effects of Anaphoric Dependencies and Semantic Representations on Pronoun Interpretation....Pages 121-129
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language Translation and Linguistics; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Document Preparation and Text Processing; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages