Anaphora Resolution of Malay Text: Issues and Proposed Solution Model

Anaphora resolution (AR) is a process to identify the appropriate antecedent with its anaphor which occur before the anaphor. AR able to improve most of the NLP applications such as question answering, short answer examination system and information extraction. Most of AR systems are deal with English language. Thus, in 1990’s the research on AR has been applied for other language, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Norwegian. There are however limited or no effort in dealing with Malay text. The AR systems for one language cannot be simply adapted to use in other languages. This is due to the fact that different languages have different set of rules relating to syntax and semantic to respective language. This paper proposed a model for resolving anaphora phenomena in Malay text. The model consists of three elements consisting of anaphora resolution process, syntactic knowledge process and semantic-world knowledge process. The elements are defined based on the observable fact occurring in Malay language.