Abstract
This paper presents a variant of Lappin and Leass’ Algorithm for pronoun resolution in Portuguese texts; the algorithm resolves third person pronominal anaphora, as well as reflexive and reciprocal pronouns. It relies on salience measures, derived from the syntactic structure of the sentence, and on a simple discourse representation model. The algorithm, as well as its evaluation with legal and literary corpora, are presented.
Keywords
- Noun Phrase
- Centering Algorithm
- Derivation Tree
- Computational Linguistics
- Salience Factor
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The work was partially sponsored by CNPq.
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Coelho, T.T., Carvalho, A.M.B.R. (2005). Lappin and Leass’ Algorithm for Pronoun Resolution in Portuguese. In: Bento, C., Cardoso, A., Dias, G. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3808. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11595014_66
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