Anaphora Resolution in Bangla Using Global Discourse Knowledge

This paper presents a pronominal anaphora resolution (PAR) approach that makes use of the global discourse knowledge along with other traditional features. So far the features used in finding the referent of an anaphoric pronoun are computed locally. Normally the sentence containing the anaphor and a few sentences immediately before form the local context. In this process, the knowledge base gets updated as more and more of the discourse is processed. Keeping this approach as the core, the present paper explores use of some prior knowledge after examining the entire discourse (whole article). Addition of this processing step improves the PAR's efficiency. This improvement is demonstrated using ICON 2011 Bangla dataset.