Pronominal Anaphora Relation

A Pronominal Anaphora Relation is an Anaphora Relation whose Anaphor is an Anaphoric Pronoun.

• AKA: Pronominal Anaphora.
• Context:
  • Pronouns, such as she, her and herself, are typical Pronomial Anaphors.
  • In English, not all pronouns are anaphoric, for example the pronoun “it” in Phrases such as: "It is important", and "It is necessary".
  • A non-anaphoric "it" is Pleonastic. (Lappin & Leass, 1994).
• Example(s):
  • "Many [researchers] attended the talk. “[They] asked many questions."
  • "[Cathy] went to [her] reunion by [herself]."
• See: Definite Noun Phrase Anaphora Relation, One-Anaphora Relation.

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References

1999

• (Jurafsky & Martin, 2009) ⇒ Daniel Jurafsky, and James H. Martin. (2000). “Speech and Language Processing, 2nd edition." Pearson Education.
  • We are now ready to two referent resolution tasks: coreference resolution and pronominal anaphora resolution. Coreference resolution is the task of finding referring expression in a text that refer to the same entity, that is, finiding expression that corefer. We call the set of coreferring expressions a coreference chain.
  • Coreference resolution the requires finding all referring expression in a discourse and group them into coreference chains. By contrast, pronominal anaphora resolution is the task of finding the antecedent for a single pronoun.

1999

• (Mitkov, 1999) ⇒ Ruslan Mitkov. (1999). “Anaphora Resolution: The State of the Art." Technical report. University of Wolverhampton.

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