1. Introduction, Marilyn Walker, Aravind Joshi, and Ellen Prince
PART I. GOALS OF CENTERING
2. Formal Systems for Complexity and Control of Inference: A Reprise and Some Hints, Aravind Joshi and Scott Weinstein
3. Lost Intuitions and Forgotten Intentions, Barbara Grosz and Candy Sidner
PART II. UTTERANCE-LEVEL ISSUES IN CENTERING
4. Ranking Forward-Looking Centers, Sharon Cote
5. Control and Event Structure: The View from the Center, Susan Hudson-D'Zmura
6. Intrasentential Centering: A Case Study, Megumi Kameyama
PART III. CENTERING AS A CROSS-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSAL
7. Centering in Italian, Barbara Di Eugenio
8. Ranking Forward-Looking Centers in Turkish: Universal and Language-Specific Properties, Umit Deniz Turan
9. Discourse Coherence and Shifting Centers in Japanese Texts, Masayo Iida
PART IV. THE ROLE OF CENTERING IN PROCESSING MODELS OF DISCOURSE
10. Centering Theory and the Givenness Hierarchy: Towards a Synthesis, Jeanette Gundel
11. Assigning Antecedents to Ambiguous Pronouns: The Role of the Center of Attention as the Default Assignment, Susan Hudson-D'Zmura and Michael K. Tanenhaus
12. Centering as a Psychological Resource for Achieving Joint Reference in Spontaneous Discourse, Susan E. Brennan
PART V. INFORMATION STRUCTURE AND CENTERING
13. Word Order, Information Structure, and Centering in Turkish, Beryl Hoffman
14. A Quantitative Look at Discourse Coherence, Felicia Hurewitz
15. Centering, Global Focus, and Right-Dislocation, Barbara Grosz and Yael Ziv
16. Recency Effects in English Inversion, Betty Birner
PART VI. DISCOURSE STRUCTURE AND CENTERING
17. Interaction of Discourse Structure with Explicitness of Discourse Anaphoric Noun Phrases, Rebecca J. Passonneau
18. The Place of Centering in a General Theory of Anaphora Resolution, Craige Roberts
19. Centering, Anaphora Resolution, and Discourse Structure, Marilyn Walker