Centering: A parametric theory and its instantiations

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 309-364

  Poesio, Massimo ^a   Di Eugenio, Barbara ^b,e   Stevenson, Rosemary ^c   Hitzeman, Janet ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTERING THEORIES; MAIN CLAIMS; TRADE OFF;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 26844480143     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0891201041850911     Document Type: Article

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