Addressing the need for synthesis in the interdisciplinary field of discourse anaphora, this collection of essays aims to draw the differing strands together. The articles especially represent the growing importance of corpus-based and computational approaches to anaphora description.

1. Discourse anaphora: The need for synthesis (by Botley, Simon Philip); 2. Demonstrative expressions in argumentative discourse: A computer corpus-based comparison of non-native and native English (by Petch-Tyson, Stephanie); 3. Is it possible to predetermine a referent included in a French N De N structure? (by Baltazart, Didier); 4. A corpus-based study of anaphora in English and Portuguese (by Rocha, Marco A.E.); 5. Conversational strategies using full NP anaphors (by Shokouhi, Hussein); 6. Some uses of demonstratives in spoken Swedish (by Lindstrom, Eva); 7. Pronoun resolution: The practical alternative (by Mitkov, Ruslan); 8. Quantitative evaluation of coreference algorithms in an information extraction system (by Gaizauskas, Robert); 9. Anaphoric reference and ellipsis resolution in a telephone-based spoken language system for accessing email (by Williams, Sandra); 10. Processing definite descriptions in corpora (by Vieira, Renata); 11. Indirect reference in Japanese sentences (by Murata, Masaki); 12. Generating coreferential anaphoric definite NPs (by Tutin, Agnes); 13. Name Index; 14. Subject Index