Project Resources

SPL804 Research Methods
Assignment 4: Project Resources
Richard Altwarg
Student No. 31683460

Resources for the study of "One-Anaphora"

Anaone,
Anatwo,
Anathree,
Anaphor!
Mark Scott Johnson, op. cit. Hirst, 1981

Books

1) Hirst, Graeme. Anaphora in Natural Language Understanding: A Survey, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1981, ISBN 0-387-10858-0. An excellent survey of anaphora, with some attention paid to one-anaphora in particular. Extraordinarily readable, and filled with fun quotes, such as the one above.

2) Webber, Bonnie Lynn. A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora. Garland Publishing, New York, 1979, ISBN0-8240-9670-3. A thorough treatment of anaphora in the context of discourse. A full chapter on one-anaphora. Rigorous definition of terms and constraints in terms of formal logic.

3) Dahl, Deborah. The Structure and Function of One-Anaphora in English. unpublished Phd. thesis, 1985. distributed by Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, Indiana, no ISBN. An entire book on one-anaphora! Separate analysis of one-anaphora into 'linguistic' (grammar and syntax) and 'discourse' (pragmatic) levels is useful. Discourse level treatment takes some preliminary steps towards reconciling existing concepts and corresponding terminology in discourse literature.

4) Huang, Yan. Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Approach. Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. ISBN 0-19-823529-1. "An overview of the major contemporary issues surrounding anaphora". Definitions, overview of different pragmatic approaches to anaphora, attempts to integrate 'syntactic' and 'pragmatic' approaches.

5) Luperfoy, Susann. Discourse Pegs: A Computational Analysis of Context-Dependent Referring Expressions, unpublished Phd. thesis. A comprehensive literature review, proposal for a representational framework for anaphora, and a set of algorithms for anaphor resolution.

Websites
1) Association for Computational Linguistics website special interest groups on 'computational semantics' and 'discourse and dialog'. Both of these have links to other related areas of interest. The computational semantics links to workshops on discourse, papers on discourse, and journal links.
http://www.sigsem.org/
http://www.sigdial.org/

2) Summary of Jim Allen on Anaphora

This is a summary of Prof. Jim Allen's writings on anaphora, from Prof. Justine Cassell at the MIT Media Lab. Only a page--a good outline and definitions of different types of anaphora.
http://www.media.mit.edu/groups/gn/discourse/summaries/allen.html

3) Ruslan Mitkov's Home Page

Links to papers on anaphora, tools for anaphora resolution, and information about special issues 'Machine Translation' and 'Computational Linguistics' covering anaphora resolution http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/

4) Carnegie Mellon University subject bibliography page on anaphora http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/nlp/doc/bib/anaphora/anaphora.txt

5) Northwest University 'Anaphora, Ellipsis, and Logical Form' Class Syllabus. Another good one-page outline of the subject of anaphora. http://www.ling.nwu.edu/~kennedy/Classes/D05-2/S98/syllabus.html

Databases

1) Galileo

Georgia Library Learning Online. I can access this with the use of my local county library card, as well as via Macquarie. It is particularly useful to me because its contains the catalog of all publications in all participating libraries in the state where I live. http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu/

2) Kluwer Publishers

This is the source for a goodly number of journals containing articles on anaphora, including the special anaphora issue of Machine Translation. http://www.wkap.nl/

3) Emory University Catalog On-line

I can search the nearby Emory University catalog on-line from my home or office. I've obtained a "scholar-in-residence" card from the Emory University library, and relied on it quite heavily for books on anaphora. http://www.emory.edu/LIB/

Conferences

1) COLING-ACL '98

A tutorial on anaphora was held at COLING-ACL '98; Anaphora Resolution: Recent Developments, Future Directions. There were some anaphora-related papers as well. Proceedings available from ACL. Focus? there's a focus?....uh...linguistics...?
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/MainPage.html

2) DAARRC--Discourse, Anaphora, and Reference Resolution Conference.

DAARRC 2000, Lancaster University, Nov. 16-18, 2000
A conference focused completely on anaphora. Was also held in 96, 98, 00. Proceedings availability is questionable.
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/daarc2000.html

3) ICoS--Inference in Computational Semantics Workshop, organized by Computational Semantics SIG of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop is focused on inference, including the contexts of inference in discourse and anaphora resolution. It's been held annually since 1999. The proceedings are available online. http://turing.wins.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/ICoS-1/program.html

Journals

1) Computational Linguistics ISSN 0891-2017

Published by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and MIT Press, there are papers and publication reviews related to anaphora.
There's supposed to be a special issue on anaphora (here's the CFP: http://linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-1808.html#2) but MIT Press hasn't yet posted it to the site. http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=08912017

2)The Journal of Linguistics ISSN 0022-2267

The official journal of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, put out with Cambridge Univ. Press. Focused on theoretical linguistics.
http://uk.cambridge.org/journals/lin/

3) Machine Translation ISSN 0922-6567

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Focus on machine translation, but encouraging submissions in all areas of computational linguistics and related fields.
There's a special issue focused on anaphora (Vol. 14, 3/4, 12/99).
http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0922-6567

4) Linguistics and Philosophy ISSN 0165-0157

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Focuses on linguistics as related to meaning, logic, and syntax.
http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0165-0157

Review Papers
The best reviews are the books above, repeated here:

4) Luperfoy, Susann. Discourse Pegs: A Computational Analysis of Context-Dependent Referring Expressions, unpublished Phd. thesis. A comprehensive literature review, proposal for a representational framework for anaphora, and a set of algorithms for anaphor resolution.

A journal article:
5) The Hirst book/thesis above was condensed and published as a journal article:
Hirst, Graeme. Discourse-Oriented Anaphora Resolution in Natural Language Understanding: A Review. American Journal of Computational Linguistics, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 85-98, April-June 1981.

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