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  <Title>A Corpus-based Investigation of Definite Description Use</Title>
  <Section position="11" start_page="1192" end_page="1192" type="concl">
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In order to help you filling in the table, answer the YES-NO questions below for each one of the DDs in the text. When the answer for the question is YES (Y) you have an action to follow, if the answer is NO (N), skip to the next question.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> 1. Does the DD describe an ENTITY mentioned before? Y Mark &amp;quot;=&amp;quot; (column LINK) to indicate that the same entity was mentioned before and tell where by providing the sentence number and the words used in the previous mention.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> N Go to question no. 2.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> 2. Is the ENTITY new but related to something mentioned before? If you ask: &amp;quot;Which entity is that?&amp;quot;, is the answer based on previous text 22? Y Mark &amp;quot;R&amp;quot; (column LINK) to indicate related entity and provide the sentence number and the previous mention on which the DD is based.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> N Go to question no. 3.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> 3. Is the ENTITY new in the text? If it was not mentioned before and its interpretation is not based on the previous text, then: is it something mutually known by writer and general readers of the Wall Street Journal? Y Mark &amp;quot;K&amp;quot; (column NO LINK) to indicate general knowledge about the entity.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="6"> N Go to question no. 4.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="7"> 4. Is the ENTITY new in the text? If it was not mentioned before and its interpretation is not based on the previous text, then: is it self-explanatory or accompanied by its identification? Y mark &amp;quot;D&amp;quot; (column NO LINK) to indicate that the description is enough to make readers identify the entity.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="8"> N Leave the line in blank and comment at the back of the page using the key number to identify the DD.&amp;quot; 22 For instance if you ask: &amp;quot;Which price is that?&amp;quot; for the price in sentence number 1, given above, your answer is based on apartment in the text.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="9">  Poesio and Vieira A Corpus-based Investigation of Definite Description Use</Paragraph>
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