2. Contents
What is coreference resolution
Anaphoric and Cataphoric references
Direct and indirect anaphora
Hobbs‟s algorithm
Hobb‟s algorithm for Hindi
Problems in implementation
Applications
3. What is Coreference Resolution
In computational linguistics, Coreference resolution is a well-studied
problem in discourse. To derive the correct interpretation of text, or
even to estimate the relative importance of various mentioned
subjects, pronouns and other referring expressions must be
connected to the right individuals.
There are two types of references: When the reader must look back
to the previous context,
Coreference
is
called
anaphoric
reference. When the reader must look forward, it is cataphoric
reference.
4. Anaphoric and Cataphoric
references
Cataphora
In linguistics, cataphora is used to first insert an expression or word
that co-refers with a later expression in the discourse. An example
of strict, sentence-internal cataphora in English is the following
sentence
“When he arrived home, John went to sleep.”
Anaphora
In linguistics, anaphora is the use of an expression the interpretation
of which depends upon another expression in context (its
antecedent or postcedent).In the sentence
“Sally arrived, but nobody saw her”
the pronoun „her‟ is anaphoric, referring back to Sally.
5. Hobbs‟s algorithm
Hobbs‟s algorithm is mainly focused on “surface parse tree”. By this is
means that the tree that exhibits the grammatical structure of the
sentences (its division into subject, verb, objects, adverbials, etc.)
without permuting or omitting any of the words in a sentence.
The naïve algorithm traverses the surface parse tree in a particular
order looking for a noun phrase of the correct gender and number.
6.
7. Hobbs‟s algorithm for Hindi
Pronouns in Hindi exhibit a great deal of ambiguity.
Pronouns in the first, second and third person do not convey any
information about the gender
Redefined the grammar for Hindi