Nominal Expressions in Multilingual Corpora: Definites and Demonstratives
Susanne Salmon-Alt, Renata La Rocca Vieira · 2002
This paper presents the results of a multilingual corpus study on definite descriptions and demonstrative noun phrases.The analysis made on a parallel corpus (French and Portuguese) reinforces previous findings regarding the predominance of non-anaphoric uses of definite descriptions in English corpus.It is also shown that the use of demonstrative noun phrases, o n the other hand, is more regularly based on discourse salient entities.The analysis involves syntactic issues and is oriented to the design of natural language processing tools.