Functional Centering
<|reference_start|>Functional Centering: Based on empirical evidence from a free word order language (German) we propose a fundamental revision of the principles guiding the ordering of discourse entities in the forward-looking centers within the centering model. We claim that grammatical role criteria should be replaced by indicators of the functional information structure of the utterances, i.e., the distinction between context-bound and unbound discourse elements. This claim is backed up by an empirical evaluation of functional centering.<|reference_end|>
@article{strube1996functional,
    title={Functional Centering},
    author={Michael Strube & Udo Hahn, (Computational Linguistics Lab, Freiburg
  University, Germany)},
    journal={Proceedings of ACL '96 (Santa Cruz)},
    year={1996},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9605021},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}