Analyzing Text Coherence via Multiple Annotation in the Prague Dependency Treebank

Abstract

Corpus-based research demonstrates an existence of a mutual interaction of bridging anaphoric relations in the text and sentence information structure. The research is carried out on large corpus data of the Prague Dependency Treebank 3.0 that contains almost 50 thousand sentences with manual annotation of both sentence information structure and bridging anaphora. We investigate in which way the bridging anaphora relations interconnect contextually bound and non-bound sentence items and how such types of connections contribute to the text coherence.