Toward an aposynthesis of topic continuity and intrasentential anaphora

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 319-355

  Miltsakaki, Eleni ^a  

^a Department of Computer and Information Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

ANAPHORA RESOLUTION; CENTERING THEORIES; CORPUS-BASED; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; EMPIRICAL DATA; FOCUSING MECHANISMS; ON CURRENTS; SINGLE MODELS;

FOCUSING;

EID: 0039484385     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120102760276009     Document Type: Article

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