@inproceedings{levine-zeldes-2026-whats,
    title = "What{'}s in a Bridge?: A Descriptive, Multi-Genre Analysis of the {GUMB}ridge Corpus for Varieties of Bridging Anaphora",
    author = "Levine, Lauren  and
      Zeldes, Amir",
    editor = "Braud, Chlo{\'e}  and
      Hardmeier, Christian  and
      Ogrodniczuk, Maciej  and
      Loaiciga, Sharid  and
      Zeldes, Amir  and
      Nov{\'a}k, Michal  and
      Li, Chuyuan  and
      Strube, Michael  and
      Li, Junyi Jessy",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, Context and Document-Level Inferences and Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference ({CODI}-{CRAC} 2026)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.codi-1.7/",
    pages = "40--52",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-400-2",
    abstract = "In this paper, we present a descriptive corpus analysis of bridging anaphora across 16 genres of English, leveraging the multi-genre GUMBridge corpus for varieties of bridging anaphora. We begin our investigation by examining the distribution of bridging instances by sub-varieties and across genres, finding that spoken genres have less bridging instances than written ones. We then investigate the linguistic environments of bridging anaphora and their corresponding associative antecedents in the underlying data of the corpus, examining both categorical features (entity type, part of speech, syntactic dependency relations) and numeric features (mention length, cluster size, salience, and distance between the bridging anaphor and antecedent). We find bridging anaphora have a tendency to be shorter and are more often definite, and bridging antecedents show a tendency to be more salient than other entities. Finally, we analyze how several of the numeric features of bridging environments vary by genre, finding consistent patterns across genres for observed trends in the environments of bridging anaphora and antecedents."
}