Dependency Grammar d-command binding → Coreference Phenomena #
Connects the Dependency Grammar coreference analysis (d-command based binding,
from @cite{hudson-1990}) to the empirical coreference data in
Phenomena.Anaphora.Coreference.
Proves that the DG analysis captures all reflexive coreference patterns, complementary distribution, and pronominal disjoint reference.
Check all pairs in a PhenomenonData
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Dependency Grammar captures reflexiveCoreferenceData
Dependency Grammar captures complementaryDistributionData
Dependency Grammar captures pronominalDisjointReferenceData
theorem
Phenomena.Anaphora.Studies.Hudson1990.reflexive_pairs_captured :
(DepGrammar.Coreference.grammaticalForCoreference
[DepGrammar.Nominal.john, DepGrammar.Nominal.sees, DepGrammar.Nominal.himself] = true ∧ DepGrammar.Coreference.grammaticalForCoreference
[DepGrammar.Nominal.himself, DepGrammar.Nominal.sees, DepGrammar.Nominal.john] = false) ∧ (DepGrammar.Coreference.grammaticalForCoreference
[DepGrammar.Nominal.mary, DepGrammar.Nominal.sees, DepGrammar.Nominal.herself] = true ∧ DepGrammar.Coreference.grammaticalForCoreference
[DepGrammar.Nominal.herself, DepGrammar.Nominal.sees, DepGrammar.Nominal.mary] = false) ∧ (DepGrammar.Coreference.grammaticalForCoreference
[DepGrammar.Nominal.they, DepGrammar.Nominal.see, DepGrammar.Nominal.themselves] = true ∧ DepGrammar.Coreference.grammaticalForCoreference
[DepGrammar.Nominal.themselves, DepGrammar.Nominal.see, DepGrammar.Nominal.them] = false) ∧ (DepGrammar.Coreference.grammaticalForCoreference
[DepGrammar.Nominal.john, DepGrammar.Nominal.sees, DepGrammar.Nominal.himself] = true ∧ DepGrammar.Coreference.grammaticalForCoreference
[DepGrammar.Nominal.john, DepGrammar.Nominal.sees, DepGrammar.Nominal.herself] = false) ∧ DepGrammar.Coreference.grammaticalForCoreference
[DepGrammar.Nominal.they, DepGrammar.Nominal.see, DepGrammar.Nominal.themselves] = true ∧ DepGrammar.Coreference.grammaticalForCoreference
[DepGrammar.Nominal.they, DepGrammar.Nominal.see, DepGrammar.Nominal.himself] = false
Check each pair individually for reflexiveCoreferenceData
DG d-command captures the parseable reciprocal pair: plural antecedent required, singular antecedent blocked.