{"pk":32051,"title":"Inferential Realization Constraints on Functional Anaphora in the Centering Model","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We present an inference-based text understanding methodology for the resolution of functional anaphora in the context of the centering model. A set of heuristic realization constraints is proposed, which incorporate language-independent conceptual criteria (based on the well-formedness and conceptual strength of role chains in a terminological knowledge base) and language-dependent information structure constraints (based on topic/comment or theme/rheme orderings). We state text-grammatical predicates for functional anaphora and then turn to the procedural aspects of their evaluation within the framework of an actor-based implementation of a lexically distributed text parser.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j82j6gq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Katja","middle_name":"","last_name":"Markert","name_suffix":"","institution":"Computational Linguistics Research Group, Freiburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Strube","name_suffix":"","institution":"Computational Linguistics Research Group, Freiburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Udo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hahn","name_suffix":"","institution":"Computational Linguistics Research Group, Freiburg University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1996-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32051/galley/23116/download/"}]}