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A two-step zero pronoun resolution by reducing candidate cardinality

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Abstract

The high cardinality of antecedent candidates is one of the major reasons which make zero pronoun resolution difficult. To improve performance, it is necessary to reduce this cardinality before defining the features to choose the most plausible antecedent. This paper proposes a two-step method for intra-sentential zero pronoun resolution. First, the clause which contain the antecedent for a given zero pronoun is determined using structural relationships between clauses. Then, the antecedent of the zero pronoun is chosen from the noun phrases within the identified clause. The cardinality of candidates reduces to the number of antecedent candidates present in clauses. Our experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms other methods without the first step, no matter what features are used to identify antecedents.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPRICAI 2012
Subtitle of host publicationTrends in Artificial Intelligence - 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings
Pages194-205
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2012 - Kuching, Malaysia
Duration: 3 Sept 20127 Sept 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7458 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2012
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuching
Period3/09/127/09/12

Keywords

  • candidate cardinality
  • hierarchy of linguistic units
  • relationship between clauses
  • zero pronoun

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