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  <Title>An Empirical Investigation of the Relation Between Discourse Structure and Co-Reference</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We analyzed empirically the potentials of discourse and linear models of text to determine co-referential links.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Our analysis suggests that by exploiting the hierarchical structure of texts, one can increase the potential  VT-k models to determine correct co-referential links (0&lt; h&lt; 100).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> q of natural language systems to correctly determine co-referential links, which is a requirement for correctly resolving anaphors. If one treats all discourse units in the preceding discourse equally, the increase is statistically significant only when a discourse-based coreference system looks back at most four discourse units in order to establish co-referential links. However, if one assumes that proximity plays an important role in establishing co-referential links and that referential expressions are more likely to be linked to referees that were used recently in discourse, the increase is statistically significant no matter how many units a discourse-based co-reference sys~ tern looks back in order to establish co-referential links. Acknowledgements. We are grateful to Lynette Hirschman and Nancy Chinchor for making available their corpora of co-reference annotations. We are also grateful to Graeme Hirst for comments and feedback on a previous draft of this paper.</Paragraph>
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