Analysis of Anaphora Resolution System for English Language
Smita Singh, Priya Lakhmani, Pratistha Mathur, Sudha Morwal · International Journal on Information Theory · 2014
Anaphora resolution is complex problem in linguistics and has attracted the attention of many researchers.It is the problem of identifying referents in the discourse.Anaphora Resolution plays an important role in Natural language processing task.This paper completely emphasis on pronominal anaphora resolution for English Language in which pronouns refers to the intended noun in discourse.In this paper two computational models are proposed for anaphora resolution.Resolution of anaphora is based on various factors among which these models use Recency factor and Animistic Knowledge.Recency factor is implemented by using Lappin Leass approach in first model and using Centering approach in second model.Information about animacy is obtained by Gazetteer method.The identification of animistic elements is employed to improve the accuracy of the system.This paper demonstrates experiment conducted by both the models on different data sets from different domains.A comparative result of both the model is summarized and conclusion is drawn for the best suitable model.