<div dir="ltr">I've done a bit of work on analysis of the distribution of pronouns in clinical narratives (discharge summaries, progress notes and lab reports), and how this can help with protagonist identification and coreference resolution. I don't know if this is of interest to you, but I can point you to a paper and the relevant chapter of my PhD thesis if you'd like to know more.<div>
<br></div><div style>Phil</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Trevor Jenkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com" target="_blank">trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 17 Dec 2012, at 03:24, Adam Kilgarriff <<a href="mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com">adam@lexmasterclass.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > more proper nouns in news paper text than in fiction<br>
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> certainly true. In general, the more formal/informational a text is, the more nominal, with more nouns, adjs/determiners; the more informal/interactional, the more verbs and pronouns. Fiction and newspaper are noteworthy for past tenses and 3rd-person pronouns.<br>
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</div>Interesting but does that hold for all other languages? For example, signed languages and specifically British Sign Language. There are several signed language corpora now do those support this assertion? And what about those written languages, like BSL, that do not have a tense system but use time markers instead?<br>
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Regards, Trevor.<br>
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<>< Re: deemed!<br>
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