Computational Approach to Anaphora Resolution in Spanish Dialogues

@article{MartnezBarco2001ComputationalAT,
  title={Computational Approach to Anaphora Resolution in Spanish Dialogues},
  author={Patricio Mart{\'i}nez-Barco and Manuel Palomar},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2001},
  volume={abs/1106.0673}
}
  • Patricio Martínez-BarcoM. Palomar
  • Published 1 July 2001
  • Linguistics
  • ArXiv
This paper presents an algorithm for identifying noun-phrase antecedents of pronouns and adjectival anaphors in Spanish dialogues. We believe that anaphora resolution requires numerous sources of information in order to find the correct antecedent of the anaphor. These sources can be of different kinds, e.g., linguistic information, discourse/dialogue structure information, or topic information. For this reason, our algorithm uses various different kinds of information (hybrid information). The… 
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