Antecedent (grammar)

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

Response particles as propositional anaphors

Abstract: The paper explains response particles like yes and no as anaphoric ele- ments that pick up propositional discourse referents that are introduced by pre- ceding sentences. It is argued that negated antecedent clauses introduce two propositional discourse referents, which results in ambiguities of answers that are partly resolved by pragmatic optimization. The paper also discusses response particles like okay, right, uh-huh, uh-uh, and German ja, nein and doch.

Improving Pronoun Translation for Statistical Machine Translation

Abstract: Machine Translation is a well--established field, yet the majority of current systems translate sentences in isolation, losing valuable contextual information from previously translated sentences in the discourse. One important type of contextual information concerns who or what a coreferring pronoun corefers to (i.e., its antecedent). Languages differ significantly in how they achieve coreference, and awareness of antecedents is important in choosing the correct pronoun. Disregarding a pronoun's antecedent in translation can lead to inappropriate coreferring forms in the target text, seriously degrading a reader's ability to understand it. This work assesses the extent to which source-language annotation of coreferring pronouns can improve English--Czech Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). As with previous attempts that use this method, the results show little improvement. This paper attempts to explain why and to provide insight into the factors affecting performance.

Strategies of anaphora resolution

Abstract: First draft: November 1997 (OTS Working Papers) Revised: May 1999 Appeared in Hans Bennis, M. Everaert and E. Reuland (eds) Interface Strategies North Holland Amsterdam (2000).Several corrections were added at the proofs stage, not included here. The major points of this paper are: a. The definition of binding in terms of coindexation (or identity of variables) should be replaced by a definition based on the traditional logical-syntax concept of binding. Apart for conceptual reasons, the coindexation view faces empirical problems and disables stating binding generalizations. b. The traditional distinction between binding and coreference should be modified to distinguish between binding and covaluation. Covaluation is available regardless of the referential status of the antecedent, and shows up also in quantified contexts, as shown in Heim (1993). c. Covaluation is not governed by considerations of the computational system but by an interface strategy in the spirit proposed in Reinhart (1983). However, although this still requires reference-set computation, there is reason to believe, contrary to my previous view, this this strategy is not an instance of economy, as developed in recent syntactic theory.

Antecedents of subjective age biases among senior women

Abstract: From a conceptual framework based on developmental psychology and mechanisms of social comparison, this research proposes testing an explanatory model of the trend to see oneself as younger which is characteristic of seniors. The identification of antecedent variables of this tendency suggests a new approach to segmenting the feminine over fifties market in France.