Anaphora Relation

An Anaphora Relation is a binary relation between a word (an anaphor) and another word (its anaphor antecedent).

• AKA: Anaphora Coreference Relation, Anaphoric, Anaphoric Relation.
• Context:
  • It can be expressed in an Utterance (an Anaphora Relation Mention).
  • It can be:
    • a Pronomial Anaphora Relation.
    • a Definite Noun Phrase Anaphora Relation.
    • a One-Anaphora Relation.
  • It can be an Intrasentential Anaphora Relation or an Intersentential Anaphora Relation.
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• Example(s):
  • Gabor typed this sentence while he was defining the concept of a citation mention.
• See: Entity Mention Coreference Relation, Semantic Role Labeling.

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References

2009

• (Jurafsky & Martin, 2009) ⇒ Daniel Jurafsky, and James H. Martin. (2000). “Speech and Language Processing, 2nd edition.” Pearson Education.
  • To referring expressions that are used to refer to the same entity are said to corefer. … There is also a term for a referring expression that license the use of anther, in the way that the mention of John allows John to be subsequently referred to as he. We call John the antecedent of he. Reference to an entity that has been previously introduce into the discourse is called a anaphora, and the referring expression use is to be anaphoric.
  • 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, finding expression that corefer. We call the set of coreferring expressions----