Anaphora

Anaphora
The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, opposed to epiphora, repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.

Anaphora resolution is the process of interpreting the link between the anaphor and the previous reference, its antecedent. It is especially interesting because it frequently involves interpretation across a sentence boundary. This has important consequences for information retrieval (cf., Pirkola & Järvelin, 1996).

Literature:

Bonzi, S. (1991). Representation of concepts in text - A comparison of within-document frequency, anaphora and synonymy. Canadian Journal of Information Science-Revue Canadienne des Sciences de L'Information, 16(3), 21-31.

Huang, Y. (2001). Anaphora. IN: Smelser, N. J. & Baltes, P. B. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford. (Pp. 486-490).

Garrod, S. (2001). Anaphora resolution. IN: Smelser, N. J. & Baltes, P. B. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford. (Pp. 490-494).

Liddy, E. D. (1990). Anaphora in natural-language processing and information-retrieval. Information Processing & Management, 26(1), 39-52.

Liddy, E.; Bonzi, S.; Katzer, J. & Oddy, E. (1987). A study of discourse anaphora in scientific abstracts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 38(4), 255-261.

Pirkola, A. & Järvelin, K. (1996). The Effect of Anaphor and Ellipsis Resolution on Proximity Searching in a Text Database. Information Processing and Management, 32(2), 199-216.