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Outstanding Issues in Anaphora Resolution

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2001)

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This paper argues that even though there has been considerable ad- vance in the research in anaphora resolution over the last 10 years, there are still a number of outstanding issues. The paper discusses several of these issues and outlines some of the work underway to address them with particular reference to the work carried out by the author’s research team.

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Mitkov, R. (2001). Outstanding Issues in Anaphora Resolution. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2004. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44686-9_11

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