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title = "Forms of Anaphoric Reference to Organisational Named Entities: Hoping to widen appeal, they diversified",
author = "Hardmeier, Christian and
Bevacqua, Luca and
Lo{\'a}iciga, Sharid and
Rohde, Hannah",
editor = "Chen, Nancy and
Banchs, Rafael E. and
Duan, Xiangyu and
Zhang, Min and
Li, Haizhou",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop",
month = jul,
year = "2018",
address = "Melbourne, Australia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-2406",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-2406",
pages = "36--40",
abstract = "Proper names of organisations are a special case of collective nouns. Their meaning can be conceptualised as a collective unit or as a plurality of persons, allowing for different morphological marking of coreferent anaphoric pronouns. This paper explores the variability of references to organisation names with 1) a corpus analysis and 2) two crowd-sourced story continuation experiments. The first shows that the preference for singular vs. plural conceptualisation is dependent on the level of formality of a text. In the second, we observe a strong preference for the plural they otherwise typical of informal speech. Using edited corpus data instead of constructed sentences as stimuli reduces this preference.",
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%A Bevacqua, Luca
%A Loáiciga, Sharid
%A Rohde, Hannah
%Y Chen, Nancy
%Y Banchs, Rafael E.
%Y Duan, Xiangyu
%Y Zhang, Min
%Y Li, Haizhou
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%D 2018
%8 July
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[Forms of Anaphoric Reference to Organisational Named Entities: Hoping to widen appeal, they diversified](https://aclanthology.org/W18-2406) (Hardmeier et al., NEWS 2018)
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