ARAKAWA Naoya
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.