Figure 5 shows the query interface presentation of the case description corresponding to the 'newoiltanker' example introduced above.
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In this picture the user has selected the 'newoiltanker' span.
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The text is redisplayed with 'a newoiltanker' instead of 'a ship'.
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Thus, if anoiltankerhas been introduced in the query, it will be referred to in the answer with the definite noun phrase 'theoiltanker'.
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The next step is to establish the coreference between the newoiltankerand the subject of the gross tonnage fact (corresponding to a re-entrancy in the attribute-value matrix representation).
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We built the largestoiltankerin history.
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You cannot afford to run the risk of supplying your ships abroad by sending out anoiltanker.
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That announcement, made in the past few weeks, has not yet been fully appreciated: the state—the greatoiltanker—has begun to be turned around.
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Nobody expects them to turn theoiltankerround overnight, but my constituents are chafing at the bit.
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Only recently a largeoiltankerwent off course and ran aground quite near to the gas tanker's proposed mooring site.
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It is no use his shaking his head, because he will only get hanged, figuratively speaking, if anyone dies on anoiltanker.
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There is twice as muchoiltankercapacity as is needed to carry the world's crude oil.
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These breaches, together with theoiltankerdrivers and now the road haulage drivers, tend to set a pattern.
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This is equivalent to a fully ladenoiltankerof about 100,000 deadweight tons though larger tankers partly laden enter the estuary.
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In special cases where one is guilty of allowing leakages from anoiltanker, one can get done for millions, and rightly so.
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