anaphora

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Sometimes this is nice, like in the anaphora package.

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using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier

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noun

using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier

noun

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for anaphora.

noun

using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier

noun

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Example sentences

Sometimes this is nice, like in the anaphora package.

Then again, lack of hygiene enables anaphora, but lack of bounds checking has no such redeeming qualities.

"Looking at things like anaphora resolution and how far we have progressed in the last 20 years, I'm not optimistic we'll make the deadline.

Is anaphora-resolution really always as simple as attaching to the most recent person, in Finnish?I'd bet it's not always that simple, in any spoken language.

The linguistic phenomenon of reference is "anaphora", and anaphora resolution is a tricky topic in NLP.

Do you know of any experiment where machine learning was applied to building an algorithm that learned anaphora resolution based on a human generated training set.

It employs Winograd Schema questions that require the resolution of anaphora: the system must identify the antecedent of an ambiguous pronoun in a statement.

This is also referred to, or covered in related research, as anaphora or antecedent resolution and co-reference / record linkage / deduplication.

That Ruby needs to explicitly bind a variable to the result of an expression in an if statement due to lack of ability to implement effective anaphora does not excuse Java's need to manually implement what in Ruby is just "include Singleton".