[Attempto] anaphoric reference range limit

[Alex Shkotin]

Norbert, sorry for my mistake.
actually "bad" text is as follows (it's checked), and empty line is
important. this line has escaped during my copy past actions.
please, see pictures attached.

Alex

  There is a publication B5633.
 A year of the publication B5633 is 1946.
 A title of the publication B5633 is "A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGY OF THE
KERLINGARFJELL".
 A journal-reference of the publication B5633 is "ACTA NAT. ISLAND. 1 (2)".
 A first-page of the publication B5633 is 1.
 A last-page of the publication B5633 is 15.

There is a sample S32994.
There is a place P32994.
 A gathering-place of the sample S32994 is P32994.
 A latitude of the place P32994 is 64.7.
 A longitude of the place P32994 is -19.2.
 The place P32994 is a part of Iceland.
 The place P32994 is a part of Atlantic-Ocean.
 A name of the place P32994 is "KERLINGARFJELL".
 The sample S32994 is a rhyolite.
 The publication B5633 describes the sample S32994.
 An authorial-number of the sample S32994 is "A".


2009/7/3 Norbert E. Fuchs <fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch>

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> On 3 Jul 2009, at 15:39, Alex Shkotin wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>>
>> I have a short text - see at the end marked as <<bad text>>.
>> B5633 is introduced in statement #1 and is not "visible" in statement
>> #16:(
>> i.e. "The definite noun phrase 'the publication' does not have an
>> antecedent and thus is not interpreted as anaphoric reference, but as a new
>> indefinite noun phrase."
>> It is not too far from my point of view.
>> If I delete all but one attributes of B5633, reducing length to 10
>> statements between then B5633 becomes visible!
>> To say frankly I thought that visibility area is whole text.
>> What is an actual limitation for distance between introduction and usage
>> points?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> <<bad text>>
>>  There is a publication B5633.         <<introduction>>
>>  A year of the publication B5633 is 1946.
>>  A title of the publication B5633 is "A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGY OF THE
>> KERLINGARFJELL".
>>  A journal-reference of the publication B5633 is "ACTA NAT. ISLAND. 1
>> (2)".
>>  A first-page of the publication B5633 is 1.
>>  A last-page of the publication B5633 is 15.
>> There is a sample S32994.
>> There is a place P32994.
>>  A gathering-place of the sample S32994 is P32994.
>>  A latitude of the place P32994 is 64.7.
>>  A longitude of the place P32994 is -19.2.
>>  The place P32994 is a part of Iceland.
>>  The place P32994 is a part of Atlantic-Ocean.
>>  A name of the place P32994 is "KERLINGARFJELL".
>>  The sample S32994 is a rhyolite.
>>  The publication B5633 describes the sample S32994. <<usage>>
>>  An authorial-number of the sample S32994 is "A".
>>
>>
>>
>> <<good text>>
>> There is a publication B5633. <<introduction>>
>>  A year of the publication B5633 is 1946.
>> There is a sample S32994.
>> There is a place P32994.
>>  A gathering-place of the sample S32994 is P32994.
>>  A latitude of the place P32994 is 64.7.
>>  A longitude of the place P32994 is -19.2.
>>  The place P32994 is a part of Iceland.
>>  The place P32994 is a part of Atlantic-Ocean.
>>  A name of the place P32994 is "KERLINGARFJELL".
>>  The sample S32994 is a rhyolite.
>>  The publication B5633 describes the sample S32994. <<usage>>
>>  An authorial-number of the sample S32994 is "A".
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> Sorry, but I do not see your problem. Submitting your "bad text" to the APE
> web-client I get (with word-guessing switched on) the attached output which
> shows that the anaphoric reference to "publication B5633" is correctly
> resolved in sentence 16.
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> Concerning the distance between antecedent and anaphoric reference there is
> no limit. However, may I suggest that you read section 8 of the ACE
> interpretation rules?
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