Anaphora Resolution

ISBN-13: 9780582325050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 234 str.

Ruslan Mitkov

Opis

How do we understand who the pronouns 'they' and 'them' refer to? And how do we teach computers to solve this kind of problem? This book seeks to answer these kind of questions. It begins by introducing basic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods and approaches, developments and applications and then future directions.

Spis treści

ONE: Linguistic Fundamentals TWO: The Process of Automatic Anaphora Resolution THREE: Theories and Formalisms used in Anaphora Resolution FOUR: The Past: Work in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's FIVE: The Present: Knowledge-poor and Corpus-based Approaches in the 1990's and Beyond SIX: The Role of Corpora in Anaphora Resolution SEVEN: An Approach in Focus: Mitkov's Robust, Knowledge-poor Algorithm EIGHT: Evaluation in Anaphora Resolution NINE: Outstanding Issues

O autorze

Dr. Ruslan Mitkov is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton. Ruslan Mitkov's publications and interests cover areas such as anaphora resolution, machine translation, automatic abstracting, centering, term extraction, question answering and computer-aided language learning