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The Discourse and Dialog component in Verbmobil resolves non-local ambiguities, using knowledge provided by prosody and dialog acts, and the history of the ongoing dialog. It is a rule-based system, working on an ordered set of about 600 rules, dealing with phenomena found in English, German, and Japanese. The phenomena covered for English and German are lexical ambiguities, sentence mood determination, focus projection, and anaphora and ellipsis resolution. The disambiguation rules for Japanese include definiteness resolution, topic instantiation, and zero-anaphora resolution.
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Bos, J., Heine, J. (2000). Discourse and Dialog Semantics for Translation. In: Wahlster, W. (eds) Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation. Artificial Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04230-4_24
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