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coreference

American

[koh-ref-er-uhns, -ref-ruhns] / koʊˈrɛf ər əns, -ˈrɛf rəns /

Or co-reference

noun

Linguistics.

a relationship between two words or phrases in which both refer to the same person or thing and one stands as a linguistic antecedent of the other, as the two pronouns in She taught herself but not in She taught her.

Etymology

Origin of coreference

co- + reference

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Ultimately, aMCI patients performed significantly worse than the control groups when producing sentences with "anaphoric coreference," the ones with ambiguity about the identity of the person referred to via a pronoun.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

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