Intrasentential Centering: A Case Study
<|reference_start|>Intrasentential Centering: A Case Study: One of the necessary extensions to the centering model is a mechanism to handle pronouns with intrasentential antecedents. Existing centering models deal only with discourses consisting of simple sentences. It leaves unclear how to delimit center-updating utterance units and how to process complex utterances consisting of multiple clauses. In this paper, I will explore the extent to which a straightforward extension of an existing intersentential centering model contributes to this effect. I will motivate an approach that breaks a complex sentence into a hierarchy of center-updating units and proposes the preferred interpretation of a pronoun in its local context arbitrarily deep in the given sentence structure. This approach will be substantiated with examples from naturally occurring written discourses.<|reference_end|>
@article{kameyama1997intrasentential,
    title={Intrasentential Centering: A Case Study},
    author={Megumi Kameyama (SRI International)},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9707005},
    year={1997},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9707005},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}