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  <Title>Semantic Back-Pointers from Gesture</Title>
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5 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Spontaneous spoken language poses difficult problems for natural language processing, but these difficulties may be offset by the availability of additional communicative modalities. Using a model of hand gesture as providing a set of semantic back-pointers to previous utterances, I am exploring whether gesture can improve performance on quantitative NLP benchmark tasks. Preliminary results on coreference resolution are encouraging.</Paragraph>
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