Forms of Anaphoric Reference to Organisational Named Entities: Hoping to widen appeal, they diversified

Christian Hardmeier; Luca Bevacqua; Sharid Loáiciga; Hannah Rohde

doi:10.18653/v1/W18-2406

Forms of Anaphoric Reference to Organisational Named Entities: Hoping to widen appeal, they diversified

Christian Hardmeier, Luca Bevacqua, Sharid Loáiciga, Hannah Rohde

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Proper names of organisations are a special case of collective nouns. Their meaning can be conceptualised as a collective unit or as a plurality of persons, allowing for different morphological marking of anaphoric pronouns. This paper explores the variability of references to organisation names with 1) a corpus analysis and 2) two crowd-sourced story continuation experiments. The first shows that the preference for singular vs. plural conceptualisation is dependent on the level of formality of a text. In the second, we observe a strong preference for the plural they otherwise typical of informal speech. Using edited corpus data instead of constructed sentences as stimuli reduces this preference.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop
Place of Publication	Melbourne, Australia
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	36-40
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-948087-37-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-2406
Publication status	Published - 20 Jul 2018
Event	56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 15 Jul 2018 → 20 Jul 2018 http://acl2018.org/

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Conference	56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Abbreviated title	ACL 2018
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	15/07/18 → 20/07/18
Internet address	http://acl2018.org/

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Hardmeier, C, Bevacqua, L, Loáiciga, S & Rohde, H 2018, Forms of Anaphoric Reference to Organisational Named Entities: Hoping to widen appeal, they diversified. in Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop. Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 36-40, 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15/07/18. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-2406

Forms of Anaphoric Reference to Organisational Named Entities: Hoping to widen appeal, they diversified. / Hardmeier, Christian; Bevacqua, Luca; Loáiciga, Sharid et al.
Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop. Melbourne, Australia: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. p. 36-40.

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