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  <Title>Discourse Processing in MT: Problems in Pronominal Translation</Title>
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6. Remaining Problems
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A note on defects and shortcomings is in order.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> It is no doubt that world knowledge plays an important role in anaphora resolution. We assume that in the near future, a world knowledge inferencing module should become available, and that it will be incorporated into our system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We assumed that an input text as a whole consists a discourse segment; however, this is due to the lack of a treatment in discourse segmentation in our program. One related problem is on tim distinction of the global focus and local loci. Since our program considers only one segment at a time, there is no way to handle complex foci.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Another ,area which we need to handle but has been neglecting is number related expressions such as plural antecedents and split antecedents.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Also, the salient element selection mechanism in our program is still based on a crude stipulation. We need to conduct further research on this topic.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> Finally, it is desirable to map a source DRS to the target DRS and handle language-specific discourse-based expressions. These will be our next task.</Paragraph>
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