Anaphora Resolution
Explore anaphora resolution to enhance chatbot natural language understanding. Learn to identify and replace pronouns or anaphoric words with their correct references in dialogue, improving intent clarity and chatbot responses using spaCy. This lesson guides you through linguistic concepts and practical application in building smarter chatbots.
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We'll now explore the linguistic concepts of anaphora and cohesion. In linguistics, cohesion means the grammatical links that glue a text together semantically. This text can be a single sentence, a paragraph, or a dialogue segment. Consider the following two sentences:
I didn't like this dress. Can I see another one
Here, the word one refers to the dress from the first sentence. A human can resolve this link easily. It's not so straightforward for software programs, though. Also, consider the following dialogue segment:
Where are you going?
To my grandma's.
The second sentence is completely understandable, though some parts of the sentence are missing:
I'm going to my grandma's house.
In written and spoken language, we use such shortcuts ...