Ersan, Ebru2016-01-082016-01-081994http://hdl.handle.net/11693/17588Ankara : Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science and the Institute of Engineering and Science of Bilkent Univ., 1994.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 1994.Includes bibliographical references leaves 62-67Anaphora resolution is one of the most active research areas in natural language processing. This study examines focusing as a tool for the resolution of pronouns which are a kind of anaphora. Focusing is a discourse phenomenon like anaphora. Candy Sidner formalized focusing in her 1979 MIT PhD thesis and devised several algorithms to resolve definite anaphora including pronouns. She presented her theory in a computational framework but did not generally implement the algorithms. Her algorithms related to focusing and pronoun resolution are implemented in this thesis. This implementation provides a better comprehension of the theory both from a conceptual and a computational point of view. The resulting program is tested on different discourse segments, and evaluation and analysis of the experiments are presented together with the statistical resultsvii, 67 leavesEnglishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAnaphoraFocusingDiscourse AnalysisNatural Language ProcessingQA76.9.N38 E78 1994Natural language processing (Computer science).Artifical intelligence.Anaphora.Programming language (Electronics computer)--Semantic.Thesis