Anaphora Resolution and Minimal Models

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Abstract

Some anaphora resolution algorithms are based on model builders, and use the fact that they generate minimal models: only those elements that are necessary are postulated to exist in the model. In this way, such systems have the desirable property that if anaphora can be resolved to a linguistically available antecedent, this resolution applies, and only if there is no suitable antecedent, a deictic reading is generated. In this paper I formalize the entailments that follow from such anaphora resolution algorithms. In particular, I will suggest a simple, linguistically motivated, underspecified representation for anaphora-DRT, and place the burden of the resolution of anaphora and its consequences on an independently motivated logic for default reasoning-Default Logic.

Original languageEnglish
Pages7-16
Number of pages10
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2006
Event5th International Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics, ICoS 2006 - Buxton, United Kingdom
Duration: 20 Apr 200621 Apr 2006

Conference

Conference5th International Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics, ICoS 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBuxton
Period20/04/0621/04/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Theoretical Computer Science

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