Essays about: "pronoun resolution"

Found 4 essays containing the words pronoun resolution.

  1. 1. Processing Predicate NPs: An EEG study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Ann Hermansson; [2023]
    Keywords : pronoun resolution; agreement attraction; nominal predicates; EEG; ERPs; P600; anterior negativity; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Theories on discourse accessibility and givenness suggest that nominal discourse entities vary with regard to how likely they are to act as antecedents to anaphoric expressions. Many factors are thought to affect the accessibility of a nominal entity in the mental model, including its morphosyntactic form and grammatical role. READ MORE

  3. 2. Chinese Zero Pronoun Resolution with Neural Networks

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Yifan Yang; [2022]
    Keywords : zero pronoun; zero pronoun resolution; chinese zero pronoun; machine translation; neural network;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I explored several neural network-based models to resolve the issues of zero pronoun in Chinese English translation tasks. I reviewed previous work that attempts to take the resolution as a classification task, such as determining if a candidate in a given set is the antecedent of a zero pronoun, which can be categorized as rule-based and supervised methods. READ MORE

  4. 3. Automatic Pronoun Resolution for Swedish

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Camilla Ahlenius; [2020]
    Keywords : Pronoun resolution; Mitkov’s algorithm; Support Vector Machine; Supervised learning; SVM-Light-TK; Tree kernels; Dependency trees; Word embeddings; Pronomenbestämning; Mitkovs algoritm; Stödvektormaskin; Övervakad inlärning; SVM-Light-TK; Trädkärnor; Dependensträd; Ordvektorer;

    Abstract : This report describes a quantitative analysis performed to compare two different methods on the task of pronoun resolution for Swedish. The first method, an implementation of Mitkov’s algorithm, is a heuristic-based method — meaning that the resolution is determined by a number of manually engineered rules regarding both syntactic and semantic information. READ MORE

  5. 4. Extracting social networks from fiction : Imaginary and invisible friends: Investigating the social world of imaginary friends.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Adam Ek; [2017]
    Keywords : Centrality; Graphs; Named entities; Pronoun; Pronoun resolution; Social network;

    Abstract : This thesis develops an approach to extract the social relation between characters in literary text to create a social network. The approach uses co-occurrences of named entities, keywords associated with the named entities, and the dependency relations that exist between the named entities to construct the network. READ MORE