Which bridges for bridging definite descriptions?

Claire Gardent (1) , Hélène Manuélian (1) , Eric Kow (1)

1 LANGUE ET DIALOGUE - Human-machine dialogue with a significant language component

This paper presents a corpus study of bridging definite descriptions in the french corpus PAROLE. It proposes a typology of bridging relations; describes a system for annotating NPs which allows for a user friendly collection of all relevant information on the bridging definite descriptions occurring in the corpus and discusses the results of the corpus study

Mots clés: corpus processing; corpus analysis; bridging definite description; descriptions définies associatives; sémantique de la langue naturelle; natural language semantics; analyse de corpus

Domaines: Autre [cs.OH]

Claire Gardent, Hélène Manuélian, Eric Kow. Which bridges for bridging definite descriptions?. 4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora - LINC'03, 2003, Budapest, Hungary, 8 p. ⟨inria-00107644⟩