For text animation, the source natural language sentences are translated into corresponding animation commands . In order to keep the flow of animation as described by the source text, it is important to provide an adequate interpretation of anaphoric expressions, among others. The anaphora resolution process has primarily been on resolving pronouns or noun phrases, which usually refer to the properties of concrete objects in text understanding. In text animation, however, actions and events referred to by other expressions should also be considered in addition to objects in text animation.
Most anaphora resolution work in text understanding to date choose antecedents with respect to the syntactic, semantic and discourse information of the source sentences. However, in text animation, it is necessary to process those linguistic pieces of information from the perspective of animation. In addition, information obtained from animation results should be kept track of for an appropriate anaphora resolution.
In this thesis, we provide an analysis of fairy tales, and present a classification for the types of anaphoric expressions as objects, actions and event for text animation. Based on this classification, the anaphora resolution procedure for each type is proposed and the influence of resolved results on animation command generation is shown. We also describe a prototype text animation system augmented with anaphora resolution on sample fairy tales.
