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Exploiting syntactic patterns as clues in zero-anaphora resolution

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ACL-44: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 625 - 632

https://doi.org/10.3115/1220175.1220254

Published: 17 July 2006 Publication History

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We approach the zero-anaphora resolution problem by decomposing it into intra-sentential and inter-sentential zero-anaphora resolution. For the former problem, syntactic patterns of the appearance of zero-pronouns and their antecedents are useful clues. Taking Japanese as a target language, we empirically demonstrate that incorporating rich syntactic pattern features in a state-of-the-art learning-based anaphora resolution model dramatically improves the accuracy of intra-sentential zero-anaphora, which consequently improves the overall performance of zero-anaphora resolution.

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