An architecture for anaphora resolution

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the pronominal anaphora resolution module of Lucy, a portable English understanding system. The design of this module was motivated by the observation that, although there exist many theories of anaphora resolution, no one of these theories is complete. Thus we have implemented a blackboard-like architecture in which individual partial theories can be encoded as separate modules that can interact to propose candidate antecedents and to evaluate each other's proposals.