TR-IT-0280 :November 1998

荒川直哉

The Recognition of Noun Usage and Pronominal Anaphora in Japanese - Towards Discourse Understanding Systems -

Abstract:This report is concerned with the referential aspects of nominals in Japanese. In particular, it deals with the automatic recognition of 1) noun usage and 2) pronominal anaphora. The classification of noun usage in the first part of this report includes the demonstrative, indexical, anaphoric, and so on. In the second part, the issue of automatic recognition of pronominal anaphora is addressed. Pronominal anaphora includes anaphora by pronouns and zero pronouns.