Focusing for Pronoun Resolution in English Discourse: An Implementation
<|reference_start|>Focusing for Pronoun Resolution in English Discourse: An Implementation: Anaphora resolution is one of the most active research areas in natural language processing. This study examines focusing as a tool for the resolution of pronouns which are a kind of anaphora. Focusing is a discourse phenomenon like anaphora. Candy Sidner formalized focusing in her 1979 MIT PhD thesis and devised several algorithms to resolve definite anaphora including pronouns. She presented her theory in a computational framework but did not generally implement the algorithms. Her algorithms related to focusing and pronoun resolution are implemented in this thesis. This implementation provides a better comprehension of the theory both from a conceptual and a computational point of view. The resulting program is tested on different discourse segments, and evaluation and analysis of the experiments are presented together with the statistical results.<|reference_end|>
@article{ersan1994focusing,
    title={Focusing for Pronoun Resolution in English Discourse: An Implementation},
    author={Ebru Ersan (Brown University) and Varol Akman (Bilkent University,
  Ankara)},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9409005},
    year={1994},
    number={BU-CEIS-94-29},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9409005},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}