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Humans do not make inferences over texts, but over models of what texts are about. When annotators are asked to annotate coreferent spans of text, it is therefore a somewhat unnatural task. This paper presents an alternative in which we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Rahul Aralikatte , Anders Søgaard

Resolving pronouns to their referents has long been studied as a fundamental natural language understanding problem. Previous works on pronoun coreference resolution (PCR) mostly focus on resolving pronouns to mentions in text while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Xintong Yu , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Changshui Zhang , Kun Xu , Dong Yu

Flip through any book or listen to any song lyrics, and you will come across pronouns that, in certain cases, can hinder meaning comprehension, especially for machines. As the role of having cognitive machines becomes pervasive in our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Nicos Isaak

We introduce a fully differentiable approximation to higher-order inference for coreference resolution. Our approach uses the antecedent distribution from a span-ranking architecture as an attention mechanism to iteratively refine span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Kenton Lee , Luheng He , Luke Zettlemoyer

We introduce a new benchmark for coreference resolution and NLI, Knowref, that targets common-sense understanding and world knowledge. Previous coreference resolution tasks can largely be solved by exploiting the number and gender of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Ali Emami , Paul Trichelair , Adam Trischler , Kaheer Suleman , Hannes Schulz , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Summarizing conversations via neural approaches has been gaining research traction lately, yet it is still challenging to obtain practical solutions. Examples of such challenges include unstructured information exchange in dialogues,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Zhengyuan Liu , Ke Shi , Nancy F. Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language processing; however, they still face difficulties when tasked with understanding lengthy contexts and executing effective question answering. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yanming Liu , Xinyue Peng , Jiannan Cao , Yanxin Shen , Tianyu Du , Sheng Cheng , Xun Wang , Jianwei Yin , Xuhong Zhang

Coreference resolution, the task of identifying expressions in text that refer to the same entity, is a critical component in various natural language processing applications. This paper presents a novel end-to-end neural coreference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Ondřej Pražák , Miloslav Konopík , Pavel Král

Providing natural language explanations for recommendations is particularly useful from the perspective of a non-expert user. Although several methods for providing such explanations have recently been proposed, we argue that an important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jakub Raczyński , Mateusz Lango , Jerzy Stefanowski

Since the first end-to-end neural coreference resolution model was introduced, many extensions to the model have been proposed, ranging from using higher-order inference to directly optimizing evaluation metrics using reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Tuan Manh Lai , Trung Bui , Doo Soon Kim

Event coreference continues to be a challenging problem in information extraction. With the absence of any external knowledge bases for events, coreference becomes a clustering task that relies on effective representations of the context in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed , James H. Martin

Coreference resolution is the task of identifying and grouping mentions referring to the same real-world entity. Previous neural models have mainly focused on learning span representations and pairwise scores for coreference decisions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Elena Chistova , Ivan Smirnov

We present an efficient and robust reference resolution algorithm in an end-to-end state-of-the-art information extraction system, which must work with a considerably impoverished syntactic analysis of the input sentences. Considering this…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Megumi Kameyama

We present a tableau calculus for reasoning in fragments of natural language. We focus on the problem of pronoun resolution and the way in which it complicates automated theorem proving for natural language processing. A method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christof Monz , Maarten de Rijke

We propose a self-supervised method to solve Pronoun Disambiguation and Winograd Schema Challenge problems. Our approach exploits the characteristic structure of training corpora related to so-called "trigger" words, which are responsible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

The resolution of ambiguous pronouns is a longstanding challenge in Natural Language Understanding. Recent studies have suggested gender bias among state-of-the-art coreference resolution systems. As an example, Google AI Language team…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Rakesh Chada

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Hassan Haji Mohammadi , Alireza Talebpour , Ahmad Mahmoudi Aznaveh , Samaneh Yazdani

Objective: The aim of this study was to build an effective co-reference resolution system tailored for the biomedical domain. Materials and Methods: Experiment materials used in this study is provided by the 2011 i2b2 Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ping Chen , David Hinote , Guoqing Chen

Selectional Preference (SP) is a commonly observed language phenomenon and proved to be useful in many natural language processing tasks. To provide a better evaluation method for SP models, we introduce SP-10K, a large-scale evaluation set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Hongming Zhang , Hantian Ding , Yangqiu Song

Coreference resolution is typically evaluated using aggregate statistical metrics such as CoNLL-F1, which measure structural overlap between predicted and gold clusters. While widely used, these metrics offer limited diagnostic insights,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bruno Gatti , Giuliano Martinelli , Roberto Navigli