Abstract Coreference in a Multilingual Perspective: a View on Czech and German

Abstract

This paper aims at a cross-lingual analysis of coreference to abstract entities in Czech and German, two languages that are typologically not very close, since they belong to two different language groups – Slavic and Germanic. We will specifically focus on coreference chains to abstract entities, i.e. verbal phrases, clauses, sentences or even longer text passages. To our knowledge, this type of relation is underinvestigated in the current state-of-the-art literature.