Resolution of Dropped Pronouns in a Phrase Structure Grammar

1997-08-11
In this work intra-sentential resolution of Turkish dropped pronouns in a phrase structure grammar is studied. Turkish is a pro-drop and free constituent order language. The resolution scheme for dropped pronouns depends on the constituent order. We introduce resolution rules for different surface orders and propose an implementation for an HPSG based parser. Implementation is based on incremental processing of non-local referential index sets during parsing.
ESSLLI'97 student session (9 - 11 Ağustos 1997)

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Citation Formats
O. T. Şehitoğlu, “Resolution of Dropped Pronouns in a Phrase Structure Grammar,” presented at the ESSLLI′97 student session (9 - 11 Ağustos 1997), Aix-En Provence, France, 1997, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/72288.