A Computational Approach for Analyzing Inter-Sentential Anaphoric Pronouns in Vietnamese Paragraphs
Trung Tran, Dang Tuan Nguyen · International Journal on Natural Language Computing · 2013
This paper presents a strategy and a computational model for solving inter-sentential anaphoric pronouns in Vietnamese paragraphs composing simple sentences.The strategy is proposed based on grammatical features of nouns and the focus phenomenon when using pronouns in Vietnamese.In this research, we consider only nouns and pronouns which are human objects in the paragraph, and each anaphoric pronoun will appear one time in one sentence and can appear in adjacent sentences.The computational model is implemented in Prolog and based on applying and improving the models of Mark Johnson and Ewan Klein, had been improved by Covington and Schmitz, with theoretical background of Discourse Representation Theory.Analysis of test results shows that this approach which based on linguistic theories helps for well solving inter-sentential anaphoric pronouns in Vietnamese paragraphs.