1998 AStatisticalApproachToAnaphoraResolution

(Ge et al., 1998) ⇒ Niyu Ge, John Hale, Eugene Charniak. (1998). “A Statistical Approach to Anaphora Resolution.” In: Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora.

Subject Headings: Supervised Anaphora Resolution Algorithm.

Notes

It is an early application of Supervised Learning to Anaphora Resolution.
It proposes a small Feature Set and simple probabilities.
It achieve acceptable performance.
It trains on a customer version of the Penn Tree Bank.
It tries to Impute and use Person Sex information.
A C implementation can be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jp233/software/

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2001

(Soon et al., 2001) ⇒ Wee Meng Soon, Hwee Tou Ng, and Daniel Chung Yong Lim. (2001). “A Machine Learning Approach to Coreference Resolution of Noun Phrases.” In: Computational Linguistics, Vol. 27, No. 4.

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Abstract

This paper presents an algorithm for identifying pronominal anaphora and two experiments based upon this algorithm. We incorporate multiple anaphora resolution factors into a statistical framework -- specifically the distance between the pronoun and the proposed antecedent, gender/number/animaticity of the proposed antecedent, governing head information and noun phrase repetition. We combine them into a single probability that enables hs to identify the referent. Our first experiment shows the relative contribution of each source Of information and demonstrates a success rate of 82.9% for all sources combined. The second experiment investigates a method for unsuper- vised learning of gender/number/animaticity information. We present some experiments illustrating the accuracy of the method and note that with this information added, our pronoun resolution method achieves 84.2% accuracy.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1998 AStatisticalApproachToAnaphoraResolution	Eugene Charniak Niyu Ge John Hale			A Statistical Approach to Anaphora Resolution			http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W98/W98-1119.pdf