We present a novel approach to solving definite descriptions in unrestricted text based on searching the web for a particular type of lexicosyntactic patterns. Using statistics on these patterns, we intend to recover the antecedents for a predefined subset of definite descriptions occurring in two types of anaphoric relations: identity anaphora and associative anaphora. Preliminary results obtained with this method are promising and compare well with other methods.

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In Proceedings of the EACL-2003 Workshop on the Computational Treatment of Anaphora, pp. 47-52, Budapest, Hungary 2003.

@inproceedings{bunescu:eacl03-wkshp, title={Associative Anaphora Resolution: A Web-Based Approach}, author={Razvan Bunescu}, booktitle={Proceedings of the EACL-2003 Workshop on the Computational Treatment of Anaphora}, address={Budapest, Hungary}, pages={47-52}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?bunescu:eacl03-wkshp", year={2003} }