Computer Science – Computation and Language
Scientific paper
1997-07-16
Computer Science
Computation and Language
A chapter in Walker, M., A. Joshi, and E. Prince, eds., {\it Centering Theory in Discourse}, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
Scientific paper
One of the necessary extensions to the centering model is a mechanism to handle pronouns with intrasentential antecedents. Existing centering models deal only with discourses consisting of simple sentences. It leaves unclear how to delimit center-updating utterance units and how to process complex utterances consisting of multiple clauses. In this paper, I will explore the extent to which a straightforward extension of an existing intersentential centering model contributes to this effect. I will motivate an approach that breaks a complex sentence into a hierarchy of center-updating units and proposes the preferred interpretation of a pronoun in its local context arbitrarily deep in the given sentence structure. This approach will be substantiated with examples from naturally occurring written discourses.
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