Anaphora Resolution Studies in Language and Linguistics Series

Teaching computers to solve language problems is one of the major challenges

of natural language processing. There is a large amount of interesting research

devoted to this field. This book fills an existing gap in the literature with an

up-to-date survey of the field, including the author?s own contributions.

A number of different fields overlap in anaphora resolution ? computational

linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), grammar, semantics, pragmatics,

discourse analysis and artificial intelligence. This book begins by introducing

basic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods and

approaches, recent developments and applications, and future directions.

It addresses various issues related to the practical implementation of anaphora

systems, such as rules employed, algorithms implemented or evaluation

techniques used. This is an ideal reference book for students and researchers

in this particular area of computational linguistics.

Since anaphora resolution is vital for the development of any practical NLP

system, the book will be of interest to readers from both academia and

industry.

ONE: Linguistic Fundamentals TWO: The Process of Automatic Anaphora Resolution THREE: Theories and Formalisms used in Anaphora Resolution FOUR: The Past: Work in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's FIVE: The Present: Knowledge-poor and Corpus-based Approaches in the 1990's and Beyond SIX: The Role of Corpora in Anaphora Resolution SEVEN: An Approach in Focus: Mitkov's Robust, Knowledge-poor Algorithm EIGHT: Evaluation in Anaphora Resolution NINE: Outstanding Issues

Dr. Ruslan Mitkov is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton. Ruslan Mitkov's publications and interests cover areas such as anaphora resolution, machine translation, automatic abstracting, centering, term extraction, question answering and computer-aided language learning

• Major area of theoretical linguistics.
• The only completely up-to-date survey in the field of anaphora resolution.
• Presents the latest debates in this filed in an accesssible way.