After years of being ignored by researchers in other areas of computational linguistics and language technology, many of these same researchers are beginning to think that their own work could benefit from treating text as more than just a bag of sentences.
stede then links the current chapter to the previous one through a discussion of entity-based coherence (section 3.3) and then discusses how to identify when a pronoun or definite noun phrase should be treated as anaphoric (section 3.4) as groundwork for discussion of anaphora resolution (sections 3.5-3.7).