Hirst G. Anaphora in Natural Language Understanding. A Survey

Springer, 1981. — 141 p.
This report was started in the boreal summer of 1976, making its first appearance as Hirst (1976b), and was completed almost three years later, after a number of lapses and relapses. Like a chinchilla one is trying to photograph, the field I was trying to describe would not sit still. Therefore, while I have tried to incorporate all the changes that occurred in those years, there may be some blurring at the edges.
I have tried to make this survey comprehensible both to the computer scientist who has no grounding in linguistics, and to the linguist who knows nothing of computers. However, it has been necessary to presume some information, since digressions to explain transformational grammar or Fillmore's case theory, for example, were clearly impractical. (Readers not familiar with these may wish to read an introductory text on transformational grammars such as Jacobsen (1977), Akmajian and Heny (1975) or Grinder and Elgin (1973), and Eillmore's (1968) introduction to cases. The reader not familiar with artificial intelligence will find Winston (1977), Boden (1977) or Bundy (1979) useful introductions.).Anaphora.
Traditional Approaches to Anaphora.
The Need for Discourse Theme in Anaphora Resolution.
Discourse-Oriented Anaphora Systems and Theories.
Constraints and Defaults in Anaphor Resolution.
The Last Chapter.