Anaphora Processing and Applications: 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2011, Faro, Portugal, October 6-7, 2011. Revised Selected Papers

✍ Scribed by Iris Hendrickx, Orphée De Clercq, Veronique Hoste (auth.), Iris Hendrickx, Sobha Lalitha Devi, António Branco, Ruslan Mitkov (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7099
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2011, held in Faro, Portugal, in October 2011. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computational resolution methodology and systems; language analysis and representation; and human processing and performance.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Analysis and Reference Resolution of Bridge Anaphora across Different Text Genres....Pages 1-11
NADA: A Robust System for Non-referential Pronoun Detection....Pages 12-23
Resolving Noun Phrase Coreference in Czech....Pages 24-34
Leveraging Different Meronym Discovery Methods for Bridging Resolution in French....Pages 35-46
Multiobjective Simulated Annealing Based Approach for Feature Selection in Anaphora Resolution....Pages 47-58
Can Projected Chains in Parallel Corpora Help Coreference Resolution?....Pages 59-69
Abstract Anaphors in Appositive Relative Clauses in Romanian....Pages 70-81
The Choice between Verbal Anaphors in Discourse....Pages 82-95
Abstract Anaphors in German and English....Pages 96-107
Nominal Associative Anaphors – A Text-Based Analysis at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface....Pages 108-118
Perspective in the Processing of the Chinese Reflexive ziji : ERP Evidence....Pages 119-131
Effects of Reference Form on Frequency of Mentionand Rate of Pronominalization....Pages 132-143
The Cataphoric Potential of Indefinites in German....Pages 144-156
Semantic and Structural Constraints on the Resolution of Ambiguous Personal Pronouns - A Psycholinguistic Study....Pages 157-170
Exploring the Lexical and Acoustic Consequences of Referential Predictability....Pages 171-183
Clitics in Spanish Agrammatic Aphasia: A Study of the Production of Unaccusative, Reflexive and Object Clitics....Pages 184-197
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language Translation and Linguistics; Information Storage and Retrieval; Document Preparation and Text Processing; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Information Systems Applications (inc