《基于向心理论的汉语回指消解研究(英文版)》由王德亮所著，作者运用计算语言学和语言自动处理技术来治语篇学，属于前沿研究，是具有理论意义和实用价值的。本书是一项汉语语篇的回指消解研究，基础是向心(理)论，介绍了如何运用计算机语言学和语言自动处理技术来治语篇学。

Acknowledgements

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Background to the study

1.2 Motivations of the study

1.3 Objectives of this dissertation

1.4 Methodology and corpora

1.5 Significance and applications

1.6 Organization of the dissertation

Chapter 2 Theoretical Preliminaries

2.1 Basic notions and terminology

  2.1.1 Anaphora and anaphora resolution

  2.1.2 Endophora, cataphora and exophora

  2.1.3 Referent, reference and coreference

2.2 Major approaches to anaphora resolution

  2.2.1 Syntactic approach

  2.2.2 Cognitive approach

  2.2.3 Pragmatic approach

  2.2.4 Functional approach

  2.2.5 Computational approach

 2.3 The classic centering theory: a critical review

 2.3.1 Theoretical background

    2.3.1.1 Research by Joshi, Kuhn and Weinstein

    2.3.1.2 Research by Grosz and Sidner

 2.3.2 Theoretical framework

    2.3.2.1 Key terms

    2.3.2.2 Constraints

    2.3.2.3 Rules

 2.3.3 Limitations

    2.3.3.1 Centering parameters

    2.3.3.2 Centering and semantic processing

    2.3.3.3 Centering and global focusing

  2.3.4 Variations and developments

     2.3.4.1 Functional centering

     2.3.4.2 Optimality theory and centering

     2.3.4.3 Game theory and centering

  2.4 Summary

Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework: A Centering Model for Chinese

  3.1 Defining basic terms in Chinese

  3.1.1 Discourse and text

  3.1.2 Discourse segment

  3.1.3 Clause, utterance and sentence

  3.1.4 Realization

3.2 Cb-Cf configuration

  3.2.1 The notion of"center"

  3.2.2 The concept of Cb and Cf

  3.2.3 Cb-uniqueness

  3.2.4 Cb-Cf configuration in Chinese

3.3 Cf-ranking

  3.3.1 Importance of Cf-ranking

  3.3.2 Cf template and Cf list

  3.3.3 Cf template in other languages

  3.3.4 Cf template in Chinese

  3.4 Transition rule

  3.4.1 Original ideas

  3.4.2 Related argumentations

  3.4.3 The case of Chinese

  3.5 Centering model for Chinese: a general description

  3.6 Summary

Chapter 4 Anaphora Resolution Algorithm: First Approximation

  4.1 Anaphora in Chinese: reclassification

  4.1.1 Classification according to the form

     4.1.1.1 Zero anaphora

     4.1.1.2 Pronominal anaphora

     4.1.1.3 Nominal anaphora

  4.1.2 Classification according to the location

     4.1.2.1 Intrasentential anaphora

     4.1.2.2 Immediate anaphora

     4.1.2.3 Long-distance anaphora

  4.2 Speculation of the algorithm

  4.2.1 Identification of anaphors

     4.2.1.1 Identification of zero anaphor

     4.2.1.2 Identification of pronominal anaphor

  4.2.2 Preprocessing strategy

  4.2.3 The algorithm

  4.2.3.1 Design

  4.2.3.2 Detailed procedures

4.3 Summary

Chapter 5 Anaphora Resolution Algorithm: An Extension

  5.1 The need for extension

  5.1.1 Why to extend

  5.1.2 How to extend

  5.2 Intrasentential centering in Chinese

  5.2.1 Intrasentential anaphora

     5.2.1.1 Multiple-verb sentence

     5.2.1.2 Multiple sentence

     5.2.1.3 Topic construction

  5.2.2 Intrasentential anaphora resolution

     5.2.2.1 Strategy

     5.2.2.2 Algorithm

  5.3 Global centering in Chinese

  5.3.1 Global discourse structure

     5.3.1.1 Rhetorical structure

     5.3.1.2 Veins structure

  5.3.2 Long-distance anaphora resolution

     5.3.2.1 Strategy

     5.3.2.2 Algorithm

  5.4 An extended and revised anaphora resolution algorithm

  5.4.1 General design

  5.4.2 Detailed procedures

  5.5 Summary

Chapter 6 Anaphora Resolution Algorithm: An Empirical Study

  6.1 Evaluation of the anaphora resolution algorithm

  6.1.1Aim

  6.1.2 Method

6.2 The experiment process

  6.2.1 Data-choosing

  6.2.2 Pre-processing

6．2．3 Resuit

6．2．4 Analysis and discussion

 6．3 System architecture

 6．4 Summary

Chapter 7 Conclusions

 7．1 The main findings

 7．2 Contributions and implications

 7．3 Limitations and future WOrk

Bibliography

Appendices

Appendix I：Sources of the Corpus Used in This Dissertation

Appendix II：Anaphora Resolution Process(a sample)

Excerptin Chinese

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