We follow the rationale that the most frequent of these instantiated patterns determines the most likely antecedent.
should the head noun of an antecedent candidate and the anaphor co-occur in a pattern although they do not stand in the lexical relationship considered (because of pattern ambiguity, noise in the corpus, or spurious occurrences), this need not prove a problem as long as the correct antecedent candidate co-occurs more frequently with the anaphor.