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"abstract": "Previous approaches to pronominalization have largely been theoretical rather than applied in nature. Frequently, such methods are based on Centering Theory, which deals with the resolution of anaphoric pronouns. But it is not clear that complex theoretical mechanisms, while having satisfying explanatory power, are necessary for the actual generation of pronouns. We first illustrate examples of pronouns from various domains, describe a simple method for generating pronouns in an implemented multi-page generation system, and present an evaluation of its performance.",
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"text": "Previous approaches to pronominalization have largely been theoretical rather than applied in nature. Frequently, such methods are based on Centering Theory, which deals with the resolution of anaphoric pronouns. But it is not clear that complex theoretical mechanisms, while having satisfying explanatory power, are necessary for the actual generation of pronouns. We first illustrate examples of pronouns from various domains, describe a simple method for generating pronouns in an implemented multi-page generation system, and present an evaluation of its performance.",
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"text": "Pronominalization is an important element in the automatic creation of multi-paragraph and multi-page texts using natural language generation (NLG). Authors routinely use pronouns in texts spanning all types of genres, such as newspaper copy, science fiction and even academic papers. Indeed, without pronouns, texts quickly become confusing as readers begin to pay more attention to the writing style than to the content that makes the text informative or enjoyable (Callaway and Lester, 2001a) . Even worse, incorrect pronouns can lead readers to misinterpret the text or draw unsound inferences.",
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"text": "Furthermore, current pronominalization strategies are ill-equipped to deal with the wide variety of reasons that pronouns are used in naturally occurring texts. Almost without exception, they focus on anaphoric pronouns as described in Focus/Centering Theory (Webber, 1979; Sidner, 1983; Grosz and Sidner, 1986; Walker, 1998) , ignoring the multitude of other possible types. However, it is certainly true that authors make use of pronouns which are not motivated by anaphoric reference.",
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"text": "In addition, because such approaches are oriented towards anaphora resolution during parsing, they ignore structures such as the discourse plan which are present during generation but not parsing. A typical discourse plan can include vital information for pronominalization such as time and clause boundaries, ordering of propositions, and semantic details verbal arguments. Current approaches based on Centering algorithms thus attempt to recreate a text coherence structure that duplicates work already done by the discourse planner.",
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"text": "Finally, there are significant obstacles to verifying the correctness of existing pronominalization algorithms for any pronominalization theory (Not, 1996; Yeh and Mellish, 1997; McCoy and Strube, 1999; Henschel et al., 2000; Kibble and Power, 2000) : the lack of natural language generation systems that can produce large enough texts to bring discourse-level processes into play. Because of this, researchers are forced to simulate by hand how their algorithms will work on a given text. It is also not sufficient to use template generation systems to perform this task because they lack the low-level discourse representation needed to provide the information upon which most algorithms base their decisions.",
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"text": "In this paper we first summarize related work in both anaphora resolution and anaphora generation. We next describe the range of pronoun types that we found in a wide variety of texts. We proceed to describe an algorithm for determining appropriate pronominalizations that uses existing NLG structures and simple numeric techniques. We also briefly describe an implemented generation system that contains enough low-level discourse information to motivate pronominalization decisions using this method. Finally, we quantitatively demonstrate the performance of this simple numerical approach in both a newspaper and fictional narrative domain.",
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"text": "Indeed, most work on pronouns in computational linguistics has come under the heading of anaphora resolution as an element of parsing rather than the heading of pronominalization as an element of generation. Since discourse anaphora resolution was first studied theoretically (Grosz, 1977; Webber, 1979; Sidner, 1983; Grosz and Sidner, 1986) , it has come to be dominated by Centering Theory (Grosz et al., 1995; Di Eugenio, 1998; Walker, 1998) which proposes rules for the determination of focus and salience within a given segment of discourse. Relatively little work has been done on alternate approaches to pronoun resolution (Hobbs, 1976; Baldwin, 1995) .",
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"text": "2. Cataphoric pronouns: According to Quirk et al. (1985) , cataphors are those pronouns which occur before their referents in the linear flow of text within the same sentence, where the pronoun is either at a lower structural level or is part of a fronted circumstantial clause or prepositional phrase which could have appeared after the reference. Additionally, this category could include clefting pronouns.",
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