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  <Title>ON THE AN EMPIRICAL STUDY GENERATION OF ZERO ANAPHORS IN CHINESE</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A study on the genera, tion of (Jhines(~ zero anaphors as opposed to the usual work from the conlprehension side is presented. By doing cxl:,erittmllts on a llUllhbcr of descriptiw~ articles, we obtained a rule for the generation of zero anaphors, which illCOl'\[)orates the ideas of recency or occllrl'CllC(~, sylltact.ic COIlSl, railtI,s, discollrse segtlHqlt strllctllre Jlll(\[ saliel/ce of ob.iects iII discourse. In the text gener~ted by hand employing the algorithm of the above rule, assuming the same selllantic strt, ctln'e and discourse seg\[llellt strll(%iil'C as the real text, the use of zero anaphors is fairly close to those, occurring in the real text. In the stepwise mnpirical study, the algorithms are improved through the test against real data, which in some sense provhles the assessment \[br the effectiveness of the rule. The result of the assessment thus encourages us to employ the rule as a p~trt of the referring expression colnponenL in the Chinese. NL generation system we a.re d(weloping.</Paragraph>
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