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  <Title>Resolving Anaphors in Embedded Sentences</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have proposed a methodology to resolve anaphors occurring in embedded sentences. The main idea of the methodology is the use of other kinds of restrictions between the anaphor and its antecedents than the syntactic ones. We demonstrated that anaphors with intrasentential antecedents are closely related to embedded sentences and we showed how to exploit this data to design the anaphora resolution methodology. Mainly, we exploited Sidner's focusing mechanism, refining the classical unit of processing, that is the sentence, to that of the elementary event. The algorithm has been implemented (in Common Lisp, Sun Spare) to deal with pronouns as a part of a deep analyser. The main advantages of the proposed algorithm is that it is independent from the knowledge representation language used and the deep understanding approach in which it is integrated. Thus, it could be set up in any conceptual analyser, as long as a semantic representation of the text is available. Moreover Sidner's approach does not impose its own formalisms (syntactic or semantic) for its application. The improvement of the proposed algorithm requires dealing with special cases of anaphors such as cataphors and also with specific cases which are not easily handled in the literature. For example, we saw that a solution to processing cataphors could be to reconsider the order in which the conceptual structures (elementary events beforehand) are searched.</Paragraph>
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