Error Analysis for Learning-based Coreference Resolution

Presented at: The Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2008)

by Olga Uryupina

Webpage: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/487_paper.pdf
Webpage: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/slides/487.ppt
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State-of-the-art coreference resolution engines show similar performance figures (low sixties on the MUC-7 data). Our system with a rich linguistically motivated feature set yields significantly better performance values for a variety of machine learners, but still leaves substantial room for improvement. In this paper we address a relatively unexplored area of coreference resolution - we present a detailed error analysis in order to understand the issues raised by corpus-based approaches to coreference resolution.

Keywords: Anaphora, Coreference, Discourse, Statistical methods, Linguistics


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