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International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics

CICLing 2005: Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing pp 222–225Cite as

The Right Frontier Constraint as Conditional

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Abstract

The Right Frontier Constraint (rfc) claims that antecedents are only available for anaphoric reference if they are located at the right hand side of any level of a linearly ordered discourse parse tree. We show that this constraint does hold only under certain conditions — which, however, apply for most circumstances of everyday talk. The data of our analysis in which the rfc does not hold come from a corpus of chat communication. From our findings we argue that the rfc is best viewed as a conditional constraint.

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  1. Univ. Dortmund,  

    Claudia Sassen

  2. Univ. Bielefeld,  

    Peter Kühnlein

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  1. National Polytechnic Institute, Center for Computing Research, 07738, Mexico City, México

    Alexander Gelbukh

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Sassen, C., Kühnlein, P. (2005). The Right Frontier Constraint as Conditional. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30586-6_23

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