Anaphora Resolution: Theory and Practice

NLB: Conclusions• pronoun resolution requires incremental update of the discourserepresentation and incremental resolution (I consider Tetrault’s (2001)results as confirmation of that point);• the incremental update helps to deal with pronouns with intra- andintersentential antecedents;• there is no need for centering constructs like backward-looking center,forward-looking centers and centering transitions;• (orthodox) centering may be a help for a lot of tasks in NLP, but definitely notfor pronoun resolution.