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An algorithm is proposed to determine antecedents for VP ellipsis. The algorithm eliminates impossible antecedents, and then imposes a preference ordering on possible antecedents. The algorithm performs with 94% accuracy on a set of 304 examples of VP ellipsis collected from the Brown Corpus. The problem of determining antecedents for VP ellipsis has received little attention in the literature, and it is shown that the current proposal is a significant improvement over alternative approaches. | AN ALGORITHM FOR VP ELLIPSIS Daniel Hardt Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104 Internet hardt ABSTRACT An algorithm is proposed to determine antecedents for VP ellipsis. The algorithm eliminates impossible antecedents and then imposes a preference ordering on possible antecedents. The algorithm performs with 94 accuracy on a set of 304 examples of VP ellipsis collected from the Brown Corpus. The problem of determining antecedents for VP ellipsis has received little attention in the literature and it is shown that the current proposal is a significant improvement over alternative approaches. INTRODUCTION To understand an elliptical expression it is necessary to recover the missing material from surrounding context. This can be divided into two subproblems first it is necessary to determine the antecedent expression. Second a method of reconstructing the antecedent expression at the ellipsis site is required. Most of the literature on ellipsis has concerned itself with the second problem. In this paper I propose a solution for the first problem that of determining the antecedent. I focus on the case of VP ellipsis. VP ellipsis is defined by the presence of an auxiliary verb but no VP as in the following example1 1 a. It might have rained any time b. only - it did not. To interpret the elliptical VP did not the antecedent must be determined in this case rained is the only possibility. The input to the algorithm is an elliptical VP and a list of VP s occurring in proximity to the elliptical VP. The algorithm eliminates certain VP s 1A11 examples are taken from the Brown Corpus unless otherwise noted. that are impossible antecedents. Then it assigns preference levels to the remaining VP s based on syntactic configurations as well as other factors. Any VP s with the same preference level are ordered in terms of proximity to the elliptical VP. The antecedent is the VP with the highest preference

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