ABSTRACT

This thesis follows from a desire to make natural language

with anaphoric language in a perspicuous, transportable non-ad hoc way.

language discourse required in problem solving and information seeking

anaphoric language can be decomposed into two complementary tasks:

(1) identifying what a text potentially makes available for anaphoric

reference and (2) constraining the candidate set of a given anaphoric

only been the second of the two (usually called the "anaphor resolution"

intelligence (AI) natural language understanding.