Resolving discourse deictic anaphora in dialogues

Eckert, Miriam; Strube, Michael

doi:10.3115/977035.977042

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“…Whilst there have been attempts to classify abstract objects and describe the rules governing anaphoric reference to them (Webber 1991;Asher 1993;Dahl & Hellman 1995), there have been no empirical studies using actual resolution algorithms. However, as described in section 2, there are some important characteristics of discourse-deictic reference that research in theoretical linguistics has mapped out and that we make use of in our algorithm: referent coercion, preference for demonstratives, the right frontier rule, and the occurrence with particular predicates (see also Eckert & Strube 1999).…”

Section: Individual Anaphorsmentioning

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Dialogue Acts, Synchronizing Units, and Anaphora Resolution

Eckert¹,

Strube²

2000

Journal of Semantics

104

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In this paper, we present the results of a corpus analysis, and a model of anaphora resolution in spontaneous spoken dialogues. The main finding of our corpus analysis is that less than half the pronouns and demonstratives have NP antecedents in the preceding text; 22% have sentential antecedents and the remainder have no identifiable linguistic antecedents. As part of the corpus analysis we present the results of inter-annotator agreement tests. These were carried out for the annotation of anaphor types and their antecedents, and for the segmentation of the dialogues into dialogue acts. The results of the inter-annotator agreement tests indicate that our classification method is reliable and that the annotated dialogues can be used as a standard against which to measure the performance of the anaphor resolution algorithm. The algorithm, based on Strube (1998), is capable of classifying pronouns and demonstratives, and co-indexing anaphors with NP and sentential antecedents. The domain from which potential antecedents for both individual and discourse-deictic anaphors can be elicited is defined in terms of dialogue acts. The dialogue segmentation method uses dialogue acts to form Synchronizing Units, which reflect the achievement of common ground (Stalnaker 1974, 1979). We show that predicate information, NP form, and dialogue structure can be successfully used in the resolution process.

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Section: Individual Anaphorsmentioning

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Dialogue Acts, Synchronizing Units, and Anaphora Resolution

Eckert¹,

Strube²

2000

Journal of Semantics

104

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“…Predicates that are preferentially associated with individual objects are the following (Eckert and Strube, 1999b)…”

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Abstract anaphora resolution in Danish

Navarretta¹

2000

Proceedings of the 1st SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue -

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In this paper 1 I describe the use of Danish pronouns and deictics in dialogues. Then I present an adaptation to Danish of Eckert and Strube's algorithm for resolving anaphora referring to individual NPs and abstract objects in English dialogues (Eckert and Strube, 1999b; Eckert and Strube, 1999a). The adapted algorithm is tested on four Danish dialogues from two dialogue collections and the results obtained are evaluated.

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“…Such impersonal anaphoric references are not uncommon. Eckert and Strube (1999), for example, analyzed naturally occurring telephone conversations in English and found that fewer than half (45.1%) of the anaphoric pronouns in their corpus referred back to an explicit noun phrase. The majority of anaphors in their corpus referred back to verb phrases and sentences (22.6%), were existential, generic, or corporate third-person pronouns ("In Japan, they drive on the left") (19.1%), or referred back to the general topic of conversation (13.2%).…”

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Mandarin learners’ (L2) comprehension of zero anaphora in Mandarin phone conversations

Bailey

2015

Chinese as a Second Language Research

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This article analyzes patterns of comprehension of zero anaphor by native-English-speaker learners of Mandarin in recordings and transcriptions of four naturally occurring Mandarin telephone conversations. Because many anaphoric pronouns have no overt expression in Mandarin, comprehension of even basic clause constituents of Mandarin texts can require discourse-level inferencing that English does not require. Despite these differences between English and Mandarin, intermediate to advanced level Mandarin learners in this study were able to successfully interpret and translate zero anaphor in these telephone conversation texts about 72% of the time. The greatest difficulties with zero anaphor were related to a) instances in which the initial, explicitly expressed antecedent was misinterpreted, and b) shifts in footing, or verbal activity, in which speakers moved, for example, from narrative description to direct address of interlocutor or personal evaluation of a situation just described. These patterns suggest that greater awareness of discourse level structures in naturally occurring verbal interaction -which could be taught through explicit instruction -might help intermediate and advanced Mandarin learners to correctly interpret a broader range of zero anaphora.

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Resolving discourse deictic anaphora in dialogues

Cited by 19 publications

References 17 publications

Dialogue Acts, Synchronizing Units, and Anaphora Resolution

Dialogue Acts, Synchronizing Units, and Anaphora Resolution

Abstract anaphora resolution in Danish

Mandarin learners’ (L2) comprehension of zero anaphora in Mandarin phone conversations

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