| Reference: Chapter 14 of Allen |
| Aim: |
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This section concerns the problem of deciding what phrases
(especially noun phrases) refer to. It introduces a simple model of
global discourse structure called the history list, and presents an
algorithm for referent determination in simple cases.
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| Keywords:
anaphor,
antecedent,
cataphor,
co-refer,
DE,
DE list,
discourse entity,
discourse entity list,
evoke,
history list,
local discourse context,
reference,
referential ambiguity
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| Plan: |
- anaphors
- world models
- discourse entities, DE list, evoked DEs
- creation of DEs
- quantifier problems
- history list, simple reference algorithm
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