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  <Title>EXTENDING DRT WITH A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR PRONOMINAl. ANAPHORA AND ELLIPSIS RESOLUTION</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="1131" end_page="1131" type="concl">
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5. CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We developed and implemented a mechanism \['or pronominal anaphora resolution, integrating focusing and DRT, and adjusted to Portuguese language processing.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Modifications to other authors proposals included recovering AF - DF distinction and recency rule, handling intrasentential anaphora, cataphora, subject ellipsis, restrictive relative clauses and, in particular, Ihose containing subjunctives.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Focusing mechanisms enabled the reduction and ordering of the set of possible antecedents for each anaphor. Final ratification or rejection of each suggested co-specification would require the use of world knowledge and reasoning. That was beyond the aim of this work.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The analysis made for restrictive relative clauses should be extended to other constructions of subordination and coordination, in order to establish more general rules. We believe that many questions raised here might be relevant to processing of other romance languages.</Paragraph>
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