Resolution of Dropped Pronouns in a Phrase Structure Grammar

In this work intra-sentential resolution of Turkish dropped pronouns in a phrase structure grammar is studied. Turkish is a pro-drop and free constituent order language. The resolution scheme for dropped pronouns depends on the constituent order. We introduce resolution rules for different surface orders and propose an implementation for an HPSG based parser. Implementation is based on incremental processing of non-local referential index sets during parsing. 1 Introduction In this work, we propose a method for intra-sentential resolution of dropped pronouns in Turkish. Turkish is a pro-drop language where pronouns in the subject position of a sentence (and subordinate clauses including relative clauses, sentential complements and adverbs) and possessor position of a possessive noun group can be omitted. Agreement features (PERSON and NUMBER) of dropped pronouns are marked by the agreement suffix in the head constituent. However properties like reflexivity are not available resulting..