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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Pronoun interpretation research traditionally focuses on listener preferences and strategies tied to linguistic properties.
  • An alternative approach emphasizes semantics, world knowledge, and inference for discourse coherence (Hobbs, 1979).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate a coherence-driven analysis of pronoun interpretation against established bias-based models.
  • To determine if coherence principles can explain the source and contextual emergence of interpretation biases.

Main Methods:

  • Three new experimental studies were conducted.
  • The coherence-driven analysis was tested against four established biases: grammatical role parallelism, thematic roles, implicit causality, and subjecthood.

Main Results:

  • The coherence-driven analysis successfully explained the underlying source of the tested biases.
  • The model predicted the contexts in which evidence for each bias would appear.
  • Pronoun interpretation is incrementally influenced by probabilistic expectations of coherence relations and subsequent entity mentions.

Conclusions:

  • A coherence-driven framework provides a unified explanation for pronoun interpretation biases.
  • Listener expectations about discourse coherence incrementally shape pronoun interpretation.