@inproceedings{e029d32830b644fc819b9c90a0f15f8f,
title = "Zero anaphora resolution in Chinese discourse",
abstract = "This paper explores various factors involved in the resolution of zero anaphora in Chinese discourse. Our study differs from previous ones in distinguishing three types of utterances and using clauses as the unit of resolution. The hierarchical structures of utterances enable us to process inter- and intrautterance anaphora uniformly. Experimental results show that (1) clauses function significantly better than sentences as the unit of resolution, providing an improvement of precision from 36.0\% to 63.4\%; (2) the inclusion of cataphors and the use of NP forms as a criterion in Cf ranking do not lead to significant improvement of precision; and (3) when assigning antecedents to more than one zero pronoun in the same utterance, the criterion based on grammatical functions gives rise to better performance than that with linear orders. {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.",
author = "Yuzhen Cui and Qinan Hu and Haihua Pan and Jianhua Hu",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/11671299\_26",
language = "English",
isbn = "3540322051",
volume = "3878 LNCS",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "245--248",
booktitle = "Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing",
address = "Germany",
note = "7th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2006 ; Conference date: 19-02-2006 Through 25-02-2006",
}