CRA

Centering Resonance Analysis (CRA) extracts a network from a text by analysing its centers, for which the Centering Theory states that they contain the main contents of the text. According to Centering Theory, these centers are the Noun Phrases (NPs) of a text, that is the nouns together with any modifiers belonging to them. Thus, words within these centers define the words within the CRA text network, and the way they occur in the text can cause links between them.

Let us consider the following example sentence taken from the short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick:

Half an ancient silver fifty cent piece, several quotations from John Donne's sermons written incorrectly, each on a separate piece of transparent tissue-thin paper, ...