A Probabilistic Genre-Independent Model of Pronominalization

Our aim in this paper is to identify genreindependent factors that influence the decision to pronominalize. Results based on the annotation of twelve texts from four genres show that only a few factors have a strong influence on pronominalization across genres, i.e. distance from last mention, agreement, and form of the antecedent. Finally, we describe a probabilistic model of pronominalization derived from our data.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ANLP
• Authors: Michael Strube, Maria Wolters
• Keywords: ANLP 2000, Genreindependent Factors, Probabilistic Model, Strong Influence