Never Look Back: An Alternative to Centering
<|reference_start|>Never Look Back: An Alternative to Centering: I propose a model for determining the hearer's attentional state which depends solely on a list of salient discourse entities (S-list). The ordering among the elements of the S-list covers also the function of the backward-looking center in the centering model. The ranking criteria for the S-list are based on the distinction between hearer-old and hearer-new discourse entities and incorporate preferences for inter- and intra-sentential anaphora. The model is the basis for an algorithm which operates incrementally, word by word.<|reference_end|>
@article{strube1998never,
    title={Never Look Back: An Alternative to Centering},
    author={Michael Strube (IRCS, University of Pennsylvania)},
    journal={Proceedings of COLING-ACL '98},
    year={1998},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9806018},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}