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  <Title>An Algorithm for Resolving Individual and Abstract Anaphora in Danish Texts and Dialogues</Title>
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6 Concluding Remarks
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we presented dar, an algorithm for resolving IPAs and APAs in Danish texts and dialogues. In dar differences between the referential characteristics of Danish weak and strong pronouns are accounted for and a novel strategy for resolving individual anaphors is proposed. This strategy combines givenness with focality preferences to model salience and also accounts for parallelism preferences. dar performs significantly better on IPAs than algorithms which only rely on givenness-based salience models. The strategy and the general assumptions behind dar should be tested on other languages.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Differing from es00 and phora, dar has been developed for and tested on both texts and dialogues. dar extends the es00 strategy of classifying and resolving (some types of) APAs. The tests of dar indicate that the es00's approach of recognising APAs is also promising for texts and other languages than English.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> dar has not been compared with phora which is the only abstract anaphora algorithm implemented. We find the algorithm very interesting because it addresses many of the same phenomena, but with different strategies. It would be useful to combine some of these strategies with the approaches proposed in dar and es00 to improve the still problematic resolution of abstract anaphors.</Paragraph>
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