Resolution Methodology -- Why Would a Robot Make Use of Pronouns? An Evolutionary Investigation of the Emergence of Pronominal Anaphora -- Automatic Recognition of the Function of Singular Neuter Pronouns in Texts and Spoken Data -- A Deeper Look into Features for Coreference Resolution -- Computational Applications -- Coreference Resolution on Blogs and Commented News -- Identification of Similar Documents Using Coherent Chunks -- Language Analysis -- Binding without Identity: Towards a Unified Semantics for Bound and Exempt Anaphors -- The Doubly Marked Reflexive in Chinese -- Human Processing -- Definiteness Marking Shows Late Effects during Discourse Processing: Evidence from ERPs -- Pronoun Resolution to Commanders and Recessors: A View from Event-Related Brain Potentials -- Effects of Anaphoric Dependencies and Semantic Representations on Pronoun Interpretation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009, held in Goa, India, in November 2009. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on resolution methodology, computational applications, language analysis, and human processing.