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Antecedent (grammar)

About: Antecedent (grammar) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1392 publications have been published within this topic receiving 41824 citations.


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09 Jan 2014
TL;DR: This work proposes a resolution approach in which texts are parsed by a definite clause grammar and then converted into an XML-tagged representation, where sentence elements are marked with discourse, syntactic, and semantic attributes.
Abstract: Pronominal Anaphora Resolution Using XML Tagged Documents Anaphora resolution has become a major issue in natural language processing systems; in this work we propose a resolution approach in which texts are parsed by a definite clause grammar and then converted into an XML-tagged representation, where sentence elements are marked with discourse, syntactic, and semantic attributes. This extension was made primarily to test the viability of using XML tagged documents for anaphora resolution. The XML representation allows valuable text’s enrichment with anaphoric information in an elegant and easy way. The system’s performance arises primarily from the integration of multiple knowledge sources in a modular architecture and uses constraints and preferences to select the antecedent. The developed system proposes to resolve pronominal anaphora, namely personal pronouns for French language texts.

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TL;DR: The authors proposed a cognitive-functional model to account for how the construction of mental structures determines the use and resolution of discourse anaphora, which has become one of the hot topics in several fields such as psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, etc.
Abstract: The English word anaphora is derived from the Greek word ἀναφορά , meaning carrying back . For a long time anaphora has been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines, such as rhetoric, philosophy, theoretical linguistics and so on. A great number of remarkable achievements have been made in these fields. In the 1970’s there was a “discourse turn” in the domain of the humanities and the social sciences, which marked the birth and flourishing of such cross-disciplines as psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse studies and so on, and which also paved the way for the turn of the study of anaphora from focusing on intrasentential anaphora to intersentential anaphora. Intrasentential anaphora refers to the relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent being contained within one sentence, while intersentential anaphora can also be called discourse anaphora, which refers to “the relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent earlier in the discourse” (Clark & Parikh, 2006, p. 1). From the late 20 th century on, discourse anaphora has become one of the hot topics in several fields such as psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, etc. Many fruitful research results (i.e. Huang, 2002; Clark & Parikh, 2006, etc.) have been obtained. Ming-Ming Pu’s monograph Discourse Anaphora: A Cognitive-Functional Approach , published by LINCOM GmbH in Muenchen, Germany in 2011 is another important work of the study of discourse anaphora. In this book, the author first proposes a cognitive-functional model to account for how the construction of mental structures determines the use and resolution of discourse anaphora. Afterwards he does a comparative quantitative study of both English and Chinese empirical and text data, which demonstrates that on the one hand the occurrence and distribution of discourse anaphora is more universal in nature than language-specific, and on the other hand that the proposed model is adequate, feasible and workable. This book suits such readers as university teachers, graduate students and researchers who are interested in the study of anaphora, cross-linguistic studies, discourse analysis, and language teaching and learning. In the following I shall review each chapter and then offer my evaluation.

3 citations

Proceedings Article
01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: A new method for uncertainty representations in neuro-fuzzy systems is discussed, both type-1 and type-2 fuzzy systems are considered and Numerical simulations of the new fuzzy model are presented.
Abstract: In this paper we discuss a new method for uncertainty representations in neuro-fuzzy systems. Expert uncertainty concerning antecedent fuzzy linguistic values are expressed in the form of linguistic values e.g. roughly, more or less. That idea is incorporated into relational neuro-fuzzy systems. In the paper both type-1 and type-2 fuzzy systems are considered. Numerical simulations of the new fuzzy model are presented.

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TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between form-to-function mapping and prediction derived from the antecedent of referential expressions in naturalistic auditory language comprehension, i.e., they examined the influence of the interplay of predictions derived from a forward-looking function and the form to function mapping of an anaphor on the ERPs time-locked to anaphoric expressions, and the results in the time range of P300 and N400 allow for a dissociation of these two functions during online language comprehension.
Abstract: In discourse pragmatics, different referential forms are claimed to be indicative of the cognitive status of a referent in the current discourse. Referential expressions thereby possess a double function: They point back to an (existing) referent (form-to-function mapping), and they are used to derive predictions about a referent's subsequent recurrence in discourse. Existing event-related potential (ERP) research has mainly focused on the form-to-function mapping of referential expression. In the present ERP study, we explore the relationship of form-to-function mapping and prediction derived from the antecedent of referential expressions in naturalistic auditory language comprehension. Specifically, the study investigates the relationship between the form of a referential expression (pronoun vs. noun) and the form of its antecedent (pronoun vs. noun); i.e., it examines the influence of the interplay of predictions derived from an antecedent (forward-looking function) and the form-to-function mapping of an anaphor (backward-looking function) on the ERPs time-locked to anaphoric expressions. The results in the time range of the P300 and N400 allow for a dissociation of these two functions during online language comprehension.

3 citations

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TL;DR: In the who-clause as discussed by the authors, the verb are is plural, agreeing in number with those, the antecedent of who, while in the first example the corresponding verb is singular, as are also the pronouns himself and him, although their antecedents is the plural those.
Abstract: Here the who-clause performs the same function as in the first example. But here the verb are is plural, agreeing in number with those, the antecedent of who, while in the first example the corresponding verb is singular, as are also the pronouns himself and him, although their antecedent is the plural those. The plural verb agrees with logic and conventional grammar. Before we consider the grammar of it, let us see if the first type of sentence with singular verb and/or singular pronoun in the who-clause is common enough in good writers to make the question important. In the tenth-century Old English Gospel of John (XII. 2) we find a sentence that may be accurately modernized thus: 'Lazarus was one of those who was sitting with him.' The singular verb (set) was evidently native English idiom, for the Latin original was different ('one of those reclining with him'). A closely analogous construction is found in the same Old English Gospel (III. 15): 'That not one of those shall perish who believes in him.'

3 citations


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