Abstract Coreference in a Multilingual Perspective

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