A Conceptual Reasoning Approach to Textual Ellipsis

TL;DR

This paper introduces a hybrid approach combining conceptual and functional constraints within the centering model to improve textual ellipsis resolution in text understanding.

Contribution

It presents a novel methodology integrating conceptual role chain criteria and discourse constraints for better ellipsis resolution.

Findings

Enhanced ellipsis resolution accuracy

Effective integration of conceptual and functional constraints

Adaptation of the centering model for ellipsis handling

Abstract

We present a hybrid text understanding methodology for the resolution of textual ellipsis. It integrates conceptual criteria (based on the well-formedness and conceptual strength of role chains in a terminological knowledge base) and functional constraints reflecting the utterances' information structure (based on the distinction between context-bound and unbound discourse elements). The methodological framework for text ellipsis resolution is the centering model that has been adapted to these constraints.