PPT-What is an antecedent?

It is the noun or nouns that a pronoun is replacing or referring back to Example The Mona Lisa is a famous work of art from the Renaissance time period It was painted by Leonardo da Vinci. Agreement. Polyphemus says “Watch Out!” . “Verbs must agree in number (singular or plural) with their subjects. . Correct the mistakes: . The houses on the street looks pretty. . Justinius Castor, one of many bards, sing well. . -Lingual ILP Solution to Zero Anaphora Resolution. Ryu Iida & Massimo Poesio (ACL-HLT 2011). Zero-anaphora resolution. Anaphoric function in which phonetic realization of anaphors is not required in. Pronouns. A. A pronoun is a word that is used in the place of one or more nouns or pronouns.. B. Examples:. 1. When Anne Davis came to the bus stop . she. was wearing a cast.. . Pronouns. A. A pronoun is a word that is used in the place of one or more nouns or pronouns.. Definition. A pronoun (. I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody. , etc.) is a word that takes the place of a noun. . The . antecedent. A pronoun is the part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for:. It can take the place of a subject word . (subject pronoun) . I, you, he, she, it, we, they. . and. Antecedents. Pronouns. Take the place of . nouns. Example. Gorlock. forgot . his. club. in . his. . other loincloth, so. he. . had to make a new one. . What do . his . and . he. refer to in. CONVENTIONS OF USAGE. Tutorial #1: Solving Grammatical Problems. Be sure to use the correct FORM of a word. Adjective or Adverb?. Subjects and Verbs match?. Pronouns and Antecedents match?. Positive Adjective Form: . EQ: How do I identify pronouns and their antecedents?. What is a Pronoun?. A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns (renames).. Pronouns keep us from having to repeat the same noun.. tease him about his walk, A.J. calls them names and hits them. . Scenario A.J.. . Routine: “During “ . 1. 2. Antecedents/Triggers. . CSCI-GA.2590. Ralph . Grishman. NYU. Reference Resolution: Objective. Identify all phrases which refer to the same real-word entity. first, within a single document. later, also across multiple documents. What . do you need to understand . about . pronoun-antecedent agreement errors?. •. What’s a pronoun?. •. What’s an antecedent?. •. What’s a pronoun-antecedent agreement error?. What’s a Pronoun?. New insights from computational modeling. Dan Parker. Linguistics Program. Computational & Experimental Linguistics Lab. College of William & Mary. dparker@wm.edu. Focus of this talk. Antecedent-ellipsis mismatches. Jayant Ameta : 07005020. Chirag Sethi : 07005022. Rachit Gupta : 07d05008. Contents. Motivation. Introduction to Binding Theory. Types of Noun Phrases. Key Concepts. Introduction to Binder/Bound NP. Introduction to C-commands. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Pronouns A pronoun takes the place of one or more nouns or pronouns. Example: -Susan watched the monkey make faces at her little brother and sister. - She laughed at