Pranav Anand

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2012–2016

Pranav Anand wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2012–2016, most of them on Discourse analysis, Coreference resolution; often with Craig Martell, Daniel Hardt, Jim McCloskey.

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Papers

Antecedent Selection for Sluicing: Structure and Content (2016)
The paper asks which earlier sentence or clause a sluice refers to. It argues that both syntax and discourse matter, and it builds features for the structural relation between the sluice and each candidate, for discourse relations, and for the match between the candidate's content and the wh-type of the sluice. A…
Annotating the Implicit Content of Sluices (2015)
Sluicing is ellipsis that leaves behind a single wh-phrase, as when a clause says that some change is clearly needed and the next one ends with "I don't know why".
Annotating the Focus of Negation in terms of Questions Under Discussion (2012)
The paper re-examines a corpus of focus of negation (PB-FOC, from the SEM 2012 shared task). The original annotators took focus to be the part of a negated sentence that suggests a positive alternative. The authors argue that this mixes focus with scalar implicature, neg-raising and stress. They propose that focus is…