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Evaluating the Impact of a Hierarchical Discourse Representation on Entity Coreference Resolution Performance

Computation and Language 2021-04-22 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Recent work on entity coreference resolution (CR) follows current trends in Deep Learning applied to embeddings and relatively simple task-related features. SOTA models do not make use of hierarchical representations of discourse structure. In this work, we leverage automatically constructed discourse parse trees within a neural approach and demonstrate a significant improvement on two benchmark entity coreference-resolution datasets. We explore how the impact varies depending upon the type of mention.

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@article{arxiv.2104.10215,
  title  = {Evaluating the Impact of a Hierarchical Discourse Representation on Entity Coreference Resolution Performance},
  author = {Sopan Khosla and James Fiacco and Carolyn Rose},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.10215},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Also contains the Appendix. Accepted to NAACL 2021 as a short paper

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