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Generation of Zero Pronouns Based on the Centering Theory and Pairwise Salience of Entities Ji-Eun ROH Jong-Hyeok LEE Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E89-D No.2 pp.837-846 Publication Date: 2006/02/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.2.837 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Natural Language Processing Keyword: zero pronoun, Centering Theory, center transition, inter-salience, intra-salience, pairwise salience, pronominalization, Full Text: PDF(227.3KB)>>
Summary: This paper investigates zero pronouns in Korean, especially focusing on the center transitions of adjacent utterances under the framework of Centering Theory. Four types of nominal entity (Epair, Einter, Eintra, and Enon) from Centering Theory are defined with the concept of inter-, intra-, and pairwise salience. For each entity type, a case study of zero phenomena is performed through analyzing corpus and building a pronominalization model. This study shows that the zero phenomena of entities which have been neglected in previous Centering works are explained via the center transition of the second previous utterance, and provides valuable results for pronominalization of such entities, such as p2-trans rule. We improve the accuracy of pronominalization model by optimal feature selection and show that our accuracy outperforms the accuracy of previous works. | ||||||||||
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