Mary Gardiner (2003).
Identifying and resolving one-anaphora.
Unpublished Honours thesis, Macquarie University.
https://files.puzzling.org/academic/gardiner03honours%20%28Identifying%20and%20resolving%20one-anaphora%29.pdf

Supervised by Robert Dale.

Abstract:

This thesis describes the results of a largely data-driven investigation of
one-anaphora. One- anaphora is a little investigated variety of anaphora where
the anaphor and its antecedent partly share sense as well as or instead of
reference. An example of a one-anaphor is the large one in the sentence “My
drink is the large one,” and the resolution problem is that of determining that
the large one means a large drink.

The problem of identifying and resolving one-anaphora has three parts:
distinguishing one-anaphors from other uses of one in English, locating the
antecedent of each one-anaphor, and determining which parts of the sense of the
antecedent are shared by the one-anaphor. This thesis presents results
illuminating part of each of these problems.  

Many of the results of this project were derived from analysis of one-anaphors
in a corpus of English text. The major computational outcomes of this project
are: a program that identifies one-anaphors in text, a program that identifies
the antecedents of one-anaphors in text, and a program that uses web results to
resolve one-anaphors. The major results of the corpus analysis and of the
programs are: analysis of the distribution of one-anaphors in text; analysis of
the grammatical function of one-anaphors as compared to other uses of the word
one; analysis of the grammatical function of one-anaphors and their
antecedents; and analysis of shallow semantic techniques for resolving
one-anaphors.