5th Discourse Anaphora and
Anaphor Resolution Colloquium

São Miguel (Azores), Portugal, September 23-24, 2004
hosted by the University of Azores

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In the 2004 edition, the DAARC colloquium features 2 invited talks, 33 contributed presentations amd 5 posters by 57 authors coming from 17 countries: Belgium, Check Republic, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan, UK and USA.

Invited speakers

Tony Sanford (Glasgow University, Department of Psychology)
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Amit Bagga (Ask Jeeves Inc.)
Cross-Document Coreference: Methodologies, Evaluations, and Applications

List of Papers

• Pilar P. Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
  Two Kinds of Subject pro



• Philippe De Brabanter (CNRS-ENS-EHESS, Institut Jean Nicod, France)
  'World-to-language' Shifts between an Antecedent and its Pro-form



• Tine Breban (KULeuven, Department of Linguistics, Belgium)
  Comparative Reference: A Lexico-Grammatical Characterization of the Different Phoric Patterns



• Donna K. Byron and Whitney Gegg-Harrison (The Ohio State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, USA)
  Eliminating Non-Referring Noun Phrases from Anaphora Processing



• Donna K. Byron and Whitney Gegg-Harrison (The Ohio State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, USA)
  Experience Using Optimality Theory for Pronoun Resolution



• Yin-Ling Christina Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, Taiwan)
  On the Paired ziji 'Self' and Donkey Sentences in Mandarin Chinese



• Maria Armanda Costa*, Isabel Hub Faria* and Michèle Kail** (*Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Portugal, **CNRS and University of Paris V, France)
  Semantic and Syntactic Cues' Interaction on Pronoun Resolution in European Portuguese



• Oana Postolache*,** and Dan Cristea**,*** (*University of Saarland, Germany; **"Al. I. Cuza" University, Faculty of Computer Science, ***Romanian Academy - the Iasi Branch, Institute of Computer Science, Romania)
  Designing Test-Beds for General Anaphora Resolution



• Rose-Marie Déchaine* and Mireille Tremblay** (*University of British Columbia, **Queen's University, Canada)
  Local Disjoint Reference and Reciprocal Construal



• Kamlesh Dutta*, Nupur Prakash** and Saroj Kaushik*** (*National Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, **Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, ***Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, India)
  Distributed Architecture for Possessive Pronominal Anaphor Resolution in Hindi Language



• Marion Fossard*, Alan Garnham**, H.Wind Cowles ** (*Université de Toulouse le Mirail, Maison de la Recherche, Laboratoire Jacques Lordat, France, **University of Sussex, School of Life Sciences, Department of Psychology, UK)
  Focusing Constraint and Role of the Gender Cue in the Processing of the Demonstrative Noun-Phrase That N



• Caroline Gasperin*, Renata Vieira* and Susanne Salmon-Alt** (*Unisinos, PIPCA, Brazil, |**ATILF-CNRS, France)
  How useful are similarity word lists for indirect anaphora resolution?



• Volker Gast (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
  The Interpretation of Logophoric Self -Forms and Some Implications for a Theory of Reference and Denotation



• Jeanette K. Gundel*, Nancy Hedberg** and Ron Zacharski*** (*University of Minnesota, **Simon Fraser University, ***New Mexico State University, USA)
  Demonstrative Pronouns in Natural Discourse



• Elsi Kaiser* and Virve Vihman**, (*University of Rochester, USA, **University of Edinburgh, UK)
  Does Invisibility Equal Absence? The Implicit Argument in Finnish and Estonian Impersonals



• Elsi Kaiser*, (*University of Rochester, USA)
  Coordination and grammatical role: Referring to conjoined NPs



• Andrej A. Kibrik (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics, Russia)
  Zero Anaphora vs. Zero Person Marking in Slavic: A Chicken/Egg Dilemma?



• Olga Krasavina (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
  Use of the Third-person Pronouns and Rhetorical Structure: A Corpus-Oriented Study



• Lucie Kucová and Eva Hajicová (Charles University, Center for Computational Linguistics, Check Republic)
  Coreferential Relations in the Prague Dependency Treebank



• Sun-Hee Lee* and Donna K. Byron** (Ohio State University, *Department of Linguistics, **Department of Computer and Information Science, USA)
  Semantic Resolution of Zero and Pronoun Anaphors in Korean



• Réjean Canac Marquis (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  Bound Pronoun Variables and Incremental Interpretation: Toward a Unified Theory of Bound Anaphora



• Ruslan Mitkov and Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
  Discourse and Coherence: Revisiting Specific Claims and Conventions of the Centering Theory



• Costanza Navarretta (Copenhagen University, Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark)
  The Main Reference Mechanisms of Danish Demonstrative Pronominal Anaphors



• Leif Arda Nielsen (King's College, UK)
  Using Automatically Parsed Text for Robust VPE Detection



• Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, UK)
  The Influence of Personal Pronouns for Automatic Summarisation of Scientific Articles



• Massimo Poesio and Rahul Mehta (University of Essex, Department of Computer Science / Centre for Cognitive Science, UK)
  Lexical Bridges: A Machine Learning Approach



• Marco Rocha (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
  The Classification of Anaphoric Demonstratives into Processing Strategies for Automatic Resolution: A Corpus-based Approach



• Susanne Salmon-Alt* and Laurent Romary (*ATILF-CNRS, **LORIA-Inria, France)
  Reference and Anaphora : Toward a Normalisation Framework



• Roland Stuckardt (Johann Wolfgan Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  Three Algorithms for Competence-Oriented Anaphor Resolution



• Anca Sevcenco (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, The Netherlands)
  Long Distance Romanian Anaphors and the Blocking Effect



• Joel Tetreault and James Allen ( University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science, USA)
  Dialog Structure and Pronoun Resolution



• Olga Uryupina (Saarland University, Computational Linguistics, Germany)
  Linguistically Motivated Sample Selection for Coreference Resolution



• Peter Willemse (University of Leuven, Linguistics Department, Belgium)
  Esphora as Forward Bridging



• Richard Zuber (CNRS, Université Paris 7, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, France)
  Anaphora and Expressiveness

List of Posters

• Patrícia Amaral (The Ohio State University, USA)
  Inferrables with Pronominal Subjects in European Portuguese: Implications for Theories of Discourse Anaphora



• Kaja Borthen (NTNU, Norway)
  The Type Anaphor det



• Duygu Can*, Sylviane Cardey*, Richard Evans**, Peter Greenfield*, Ruslan Mitkov** (*Université Franche-Compt é, Centre Lucien Tesniere, France, **University of Wolverhampton, Research Group in Computational Linguistics, UK)
  A Study on Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution in Controlled Languages and Simple English



• Manfred Consten* and Konstanze Marx** (*Universitaet Jena, **Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Germany)
  A Resolution Model for Complex-Anaphors



• Fredrik Olsson (Swedish Insitute of Computer Science, Sweden)
  A Survey of Machine Learning for Reference Resolution in Textual Discourse