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  <Title>Exploiting Syntactic Patterns as Clues in Zero-Anaphora Resolution</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We approach the zero-anaphora resolution problem by decomposing it into intra-sentential and inter-sentential zero-anaphora resolution. For the former problem, syntactic patterns of the appearance of zero-pronouns and their antecedents are useful clues. Taking Japanese as a target language, we empirically demonstrate that incorporating rich syntactic pattern features in a state-of-the-art learning-based anaphora resolution model dramatically improves the accuracy of intra-sentential zero-anaphora, which consequently improves the overall performance of zero-anaphora resolution.</Paragraph>
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