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  <Title>Anaphora Resolution in Multi-Person Dialogues</Title>
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4 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have implemented an automatic, knowledge-based anaphora resolution system that works for dialogic discourses. The lack of availability of any standard corpora (Mitkov, 1999) is a major drawback in case of anaphora resolution systems in general and those for dialogues in particular. The original contribution of this system is mainly two-fold. First, the anaphora resolution system that we have implemented uses an innovative graph technique, based on the idea of anaphora chaining, that makes it possible to resolve such references as cataphora and plural anaphora. Secondly, we give an algorithm which uses naive character building to apply various semantic and world-knowledge based heuristics to the process of anaphora resolution. The results obtained from the system indicate a fairly high accuracy, though an extensive evaluation of the various resolution algorithms as well as the system as a whole remains to be done.</Paragraph>
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