In most cases, the COLLECT module determines an LPA by enumerating all antecedents in a window of text that precedes the anaphor under scrutiny (Hobbs, 1978;Lappin and Leass, 1994;Mitkov, 1997;Kameyama, 1997;Ge et al., 1998).
for example, for the Linear-2 model and referential expression the smaller company in unit 9, we estimated whether a co-referential link could be established between the smaller company and another referential expression in units 7, 8, or 9.