Specifying the parameters of centering theory: A corpus-based evaluation using text from application-oriented domains

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2000-October, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Poesio, M ^a   Cheng, H ^a   Henschel, R ^a   Hitzeman, J ^b   Kibble, R ^c   Stevenson, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION-ORIENTED; BASIC CONCEPTS; CENTERING THEORIES; CORPUS-BASED; ORIENTED DOMAINS; RULE AND CONSTRAINT; TWO DOMAINS;

EID: 85149150587     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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