Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval

Anaphora Resolution and Text RetrievalThis book covers anaphora resolution for the English language from a linguistic and computational point of view. First, a definition of anaphors that applies to linguistics as well as information technology is given. On this foundation, all types of anaphors and their characteristics for English are outlined. To examine how frequent each type of anaphor is, a corpus of different hypertexts has been established and analysed with regard to anaphors. The

Michael Wood

telecommunication

and Kurdish demands throughout the region

Gerald discovers that an offhand remark he had made while surveying the wreckage of his house

inexperienced female journalist shares mud crab in a foxhole with an equally young Hamid Karzai

asking him to give testimony about his participation in a disastrous event during the Troubles–one he has long worked to forget

Theoretical analyses are confronted with psycholinguistic findings about the processing of event representations

5 million American children now schooled at home

he shows that neo-classicism was never just a glaze of marble columns or Latin tags but a creative struggle with the Roman stamp: a masculine

Owing largely to the threat of terrorism

Bringing together scholars with deep experience in Africa

and software