Resolving Pronominal Anaphora in Hindi using Hobbs‟ algorithm

This paper presents the application of Hobbs algorithm for pronominal resolution in Hindi. Hobb’s algorithm makes use of syntactic information rather than semantic information can thus be used as baseline algorithm. The algorithm has been adapted for Hindi language taking into account the roles of subject, object and its impact on anaphora resolution for reflexive and possessive pronouns. In case, if subject is dative, then possessive and reflexive pronouns loose the complimentary distribution, where reflexive pronoun binds with preceding nominative as well as dative noun phrase within a sentence, possessive pronoun extends the binding to the previous sentence as well