Semi-automatic identification of danish discourse deictics

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In this paper we present an algorithm for the (semi-)automatic identification of anaphors whose antecedents are verbal phrases, clauses or discourse segments in Danish Dialogues. Although these anaphors are quite frequent, especially in conversations, they are usually been neglected in computational linguistics. The algorithm we propose contains defeasible rules for distinguishing these anaphors from those who have individual nominals as antecedents. The rules have been identified by looking at the occurrences of these types of anaphor in the transcriptions of two dialogue collections. The algorithm has been manually tested on four Danish dialogues and the obtained results have been evaluated.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationText, Speech and Dialogue - 4th International Conference, TSD 2001, Proceedings
EditorsVaclav Matousek, Pavel Mautner, Roman Moucek, Karel Tauser
Number of pages7
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Publication date2001
Pages396-402
ISBN (Print)9783540425571
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2001
Event4th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2001 - Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic
Duration: 11 Sep 200113 Sep 2001

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2001
LandCzech Republic
ByZelezna Ruda
Periode11/09/200113/09/2001
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2166
ISSN0302-9743

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