By Eduardo Bernuil

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The anaphora phenomenon can be considered one of the most difficult problems in natural language processing.

 Halliday & Hassan (1976) defined anaphora as the cohesion (presupposition) which points back to some previous item.

 [Mary] went to the cinema on Thursday. She didnt like the film.

 In this example, the pronoun she is the anaphor and the noun phrase Mary is the antecedent. This type of anaphora is the most common type, the so-called pronominal anaphora.

 The anaphora phenomenon can be further broken down into two processes: resolution and generation. Resolution refers to the process of determining the antecedent of an anaphor; generation is the process of creating references over a discourse entity.

 Spanish is a nearly free-order language, in which the different constituents of a sentence (subject, object, etc.) can appear almost at any position.
Spanish sentences are usually longer than English ones.

Number Discrepancies
This problem is generated by the discrepancy between words of different languages that express the same concept. These words can be referred to a singular pronoun in the source language and to a plural pronoun in the target language.

Gender Discrepancies
Gender discrepancies come from existing morphological differences between different languages. For instance, English has less morphological information than Spanish. The English plural personal pronoun they can be translated into the Spanish pronouns ellos (masculine) or ellas (feminine); the singular personal pronoun it can be translated into el/este (masculine) or ella/esta (feminine), etc.

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