How Mutual Knowledge Constrains the Choice of Anaphoric Demonstratives in Japanese and English

Do LLMs Capture Embodied Cognition and Cultural Variation? Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Demonstratives

Do large language models (LLMs) truly acquire embodied cognition and cultural conventions from text? We introduce demonstratives, fundamental spatial expressions like "this/that" in English and "zhè/nà" in Chinese, as a …

Joint Learning for Event Coreference Resolution

While joint models have been developed for many NLP tasks, the vast majority of event coreference resolvers, including the top-performing resolvers competing in the recent TAC KBP 2016 Event Nugget Detection and Corefere…

Deictic Codes, Demonstratives, and Reference: A Step Toward Solving the Grounding Problem

In this paper we address the issue of grounding for experiential concepts. Given that perceptual demonstratives are a basic form of such concepts, we examine ways of fixing the referents of such demonstratives. To avoid …

The Non-deictic Use of Demonstratives in Conversations and Interpreted Speeches in Contemporary Hong Kong Cantonese

Anaphoric Binding: an integrated overview

The interpretation of anaphors depends on their antecedents as the semantic value that an anaphor eventually conveys is co-specified by the value of its antecedent. Interestingly, when occurring in a given syntactic posi…