Corpus-based development and evaluation of a system for processing definite descriptions
Renata La Rocca Vieira, Massimo Poesio · 2000
We present an implemented system for processing definite descriptions. The system is based on the results of a corpus analysis previously reported, which showed how common discourse-new descriptions are in newspaper corpora, and identified several problems to be dealt with when developing computational methods for interpreting bridging descriptions. The annotated corpus produced in this earlier work was used to extensively evaluate the proposed techniques for matching definite descriptions with their antecedents, discourse segmentation, recognizing discourse-new descriptions, and suggesting anchors for bridging descriptions.