Anaphora is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines. The correct interpretation of anaphora has also become increasingly important for real-world natural language processing applications, including machine translation, automatic abstracting, information extraction and question answering.This volume provides a unique overview of the processing of anaphora from a multi- and inter-disciplinary angle. It will be of interest and practical use to readers from fields as diverse as theoretical linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, human language technology, psycholinguistics, cognitive science and translation studies.The readership includes but is not limited to university lecturers, researchers, postgraduate and senior undergraduate students.Table of contentsThis is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes. Editors' Foreword I. Computational Treatment A Sequenced Model of Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution Shalom Lappin How to Deal with Wicked Anaphora? Dan Cristea and Oana-Diana Postolache A Machine Learning Approach to Preference Strategies for Anaphor Resolution Roland Stuckardt Decomposing Discourse Joel Tetreault A Lightweight Approach to Coreference Resolution for Named Entities in Text Marin Dimitrov, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham and Diana Maynard A Unified Treatment of Spanish se Randy Sharp II. Theoretical, Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Issues Binding and Beyond: Issues in Backward Anaphora Eric Reuland and Sergey Avrutin Modelling Referential Choice in Discourse: A Cognitive Calculative Approach and a Neutral Network Approach André Grüning and Andrej A. Kibrik Degrees of Indirectness: Two Types of Implicit Referents and theirRetrieval via Unaccented Pronouns Francis Cornish Pronominal Interpretation and the Syntax-Discourse Interface: Real-timeComprehension and Neurological Properties Maria Mercedes Piñango and Petra Burkhardt Top-down and Bottom-up Effects on the Interpretation of Weak ObjectPronouns in Greek Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta Different Forms Have Different Referential Properties: Implications for theNotion of 'Salience' Elsi Kaiser Referential Accessibility and Anaphor Resolution: The Case of the FrenchHybrid Demonstrative Pronoun Celui-Ci/Celle-Ci Marion Fossard and Francois Rigalleau III. Corpus-Based Studies The Predicate-Argument Structure of Discourse Connectives: A Corpus-BasedStudy Cassandre Creswell, Katherine Forbes, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad,Aravind K. Joshi and Bonnie Webber Combining Centering-Based Models of Salience and Information Structure forResolving Intersentential Pronominal Anaphora Costanza Navarretta Pronouns Without NP Antecedents: How do we Know when a Pronoun is Referential? Jeanette K. Gundel, Nancy A. Hedberg and Ron Zacharski Syntactic Form and Discourse Accessibility Gregory Ward and Andrew Kehler Coreference and Anaphoric Relations of Demonstrative Noun Phrases inMultilingual Corpus Renata Vieira, Susanne Salmon-Alt and Caroline Gasperin Anaphoric Demonstratives: Dealing with the Hard Cases Marco Rocha Focu, Activation, and This-Noun Phrases: An Empirical Study Massimo Poesio and Natalia N. Modjeska