A consistent text contains rich inforlnation for resolving mnbiguities within its sentences. Even simple syntactic information such as word occurrence and collocation patterns, which can be extra(:ted fi'om the text without deep discourse analysis, lint)roves the accuracy of sentence analysis. Pronoml resolution is a typical proceeding that utilizes this information. Through the use of this inforlnation, along with information on the syntactic position of each candidate, 93.8% of pronoun references were resolved correctly in an experiment on computer mammls.