d away many of the complications of the surface text . While regular expressions could catch many of the phenomena we have described, they will become increasingly comple x as they attempt to capture long range dependencies in the text and will also become increasingly inaccurate. Bride of CogNIA C Resolution of pronouns and lower-case anaphors was handled by a program called Bride of CogNIAC, whic h is an extension of CogNIAC, [1] . CogNIAC was designed to perform pronominal resolution in highly ambiguou s contexts and is distinguished from other approaches to pronominal resolution in the following ways. First, it was designed to have high precision, rather than high recall . Second, it ranks the relative salience of an anaphor' s candidate antecedents in a partial order rather than a tot...

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