TAKEI Mitsuko
   Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Global and Community Studies
   Position   Professor
Language English
Publication Date 1997/12
Type Articles
Title Zero Anaphora Resolution in Japanese: A Computational Model for Machine Translation
Contribution Type Single-Authored Publication
Journal Masters’ Research Paper, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University.
Journal TypeAnother Country
Volume, Issue, Pages pp.1-41
Number of pages 41
Author and coauthor Mitsuko Yamura
Details This masters’ research paper overviews the syntactic and discourse-based approaches to zero anaphora in Japanese and attempts to incorporate two approaches often independently studies, in the expectation of combining their advantages and limitations into a model of machine translation systems. The sentence-level syntactic framework draws on the Government-Binding theory proposed by Chomsky (1981, and subsequent work) and the discourse-based analysis model, the Centering theory in Japanese proposed by Walker et al. (1990, 1994).