Situated Processing of Pronominal Anaphora
Erkan Tın, Varol Akman · CogPrints (University of Southampton) · 1994
. We describe a novel approach to the analysis of pronominal anaphora in Turkish. A computational medium which is based on situation theory is used as our implementation tool. The task of resolving pronominal anaphora is demonstrated in this environment which employs situation-theoretic constructs for processing. Zusammenfassung. Wir beschreiben einen neuartigen Ansatz fur die Analyse pronominaler Anaphern im Turkischen. Fur die Implementation wird eine situationstheoretisch fundierte Entwicklungsumgebung verwendet. Mithilfe dieser Umgebung, die situationstheoretische Konstrukte unterstutzt, demonstrieren wir die Auflosung pronominaler Anaphern. Keywords. Computational situation theory, situation semantics, anaphora 1 Introduction In written/spoken discourse, people use certain instruments for `pointing back' in the discourse context to individuals, objects, events, times, and concepts mentioned previously. Such anaphoric mechanisms comprise pronouns, definite noun phrases, and elli...