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Persian Pronoun Resolution: Leveraging Neural Networks and Language Models

Computation and Language 2024-05-20 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Coreference resolution, critical for identifying textual entities referencing the same entity, faces challenges in pronoun resolution, particularly identifying pronoun antecedents. Existing methods often treat pronoun resolution as a separate task from mention detection, potentially missing valuable information. This study proposes the first end-to-end neural network system for Persian pronoun resolution, leveraging pre-trained Transformer models like ParsBERT. Our system jointly optimizes both mention detection and antecedent linking, achieving a 3.37 F1 score improvement over the previous state-of-the-art system (which relied on rule-based and statistical methods) on the Mehr corpus. This significant improvement demonstrates the effectiveness of combining neural networks with linguistic models, potentially marking a significant advancement in Persian pronoun resolution and paving the way for further research in this under-explored area.

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@article{arxiv.2405.10714,
  title  = {Persian Pronoun Resolution: Leveraging Neural Networks and Language Models},
  author = {Hassan Haji Mohammadi and Alireza Talebpour and Ahmad Mahmoudi Aznaveh and Samaneh Yazdani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.10714},
  year   = {2024}
}