coreference

or co-ref·er·ence

[ koh-ref-er-uhns, -ref-ruhns ]

noun

, Linguistics.

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coreference¹

co- + reference

Example Sentences

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.

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