Coreference and anaphoric relations of demonstrative noun phrases in a multilingual corpus

Susanne Salmon-Alt (1) , Renata Vieira , Caroline Gasperin

1 ATILF - Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française

We present a corpus study regarding the use of demonstrative noun phrases in Portuguese and French. The motivation for this study is to verify specific features related to the coreferential and anaphoric role of such expressions in written texts. These features serve as background knowledge for the development of a multilingual tool for coreference and anaphoric resolution.

Mots clés: french compared with other languages; portuguese language; linguistics and data processing; written language

Mots clés: français comparé à dáutres langues; portugais; linguistique informatique; langue écrite

Domaines: Linguistique

Susanne Salmon-Alt, Renata Vieira, Caroline Gasperin. Coreference and anaphoric relations of demonstrative noun phrases in a multilingual corpus. António Branco; Tony McEnery; Ruslan Mitkov. Anaphora Processing : Linguistic, cognitive and computational modelling/A. Branco; T. McEnery and R. Mitkov (eds.), 263, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, ⟨10.1075/cilt.263.22vie⟩. ⟨halshs-00004957⟩