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We introduce a novel and efficient method for Event Coreference Resolution (ECR) applied to a lower-resourced language domain. By framing ECR as a graph reconstruction task, we are able to combine deep semantic embeddings with structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Loic De Langhe , Orphée De Clercq , Veronique Hoste

Cross-document event coreference resolution (CDECR) involves clustering event mentions across multiple documents that refer to the same real-world events. Existing approaches utilize fine-tuning of small language models (SLMs) like BERT to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Qingkai Min , Qipeng Guo , Xiangkun Hu , Songfang Huang , Zheng Zhang , Yue Zhang

Event Coreference Resolution (ECR) as a pairwise mention classification task is expensive both for automated systems and manual annotations. The task's quadratic difficulty is exacerbated when using Large Language Models (LLMs), making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed , George Arthur Baker , Evi Judge , Michael Regan , Kristin Wright-Bettner , Martha Palmer , James H. Martin

Identifying related entities and events within and across documents is fundamental to natural language understanding. We present an approach to entity and event coreference resolution utilizing contrastive representation learning. Earlier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Benjamin Hsu , Graham Horwood

In NLP, Event Coreference Resolution (ECR) is the task of connecting event clusters that refer to the same underlying real-life event, usually via neural systems. In this work, we investigate using abductive free-text rationales (FTRs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Abhijnan Nath , Shadi Manafi , Avyakta Chelle , Nikhil Krishnaswamy

Coreference resolution is a key problem in natural language understanding that still escapes reliable solutions. One fundamental difficulty has been that of resolving instances involving pronouns since they often require deep language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Haoruo Peng , Daniel Khashabi , Dan Roth

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

Although recent neural models for coreference resolution have led to substantial improvements on benchmark datasets, transferring these models to new target domains containing out-of-vocabulary spans and requiring differing annotation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nupoor Gandhi , Anjalie Field , Emma Strubell

Cross-referencing, which links passages of text to other related passages, can be a valuable study aid for facilitating comprehension of a text. However, cross-referencing requires first, a comprehensive thematic knowledge of the entire…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Jeffrey Lund , Piper Armstrong , Wilson Fearn , Stephen Cowley , Emily Hales , Kevin Seppi

People are often entities of interest in tasks such as search and information extraction. In these tasks, the goal is to find as much information as possible about people specified by their name. However in text, some of the references to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Oshin Agarwal , Sanjay Subramanian , Ani Nenkova , Dan Roth

The target of a coreference resolution system is to cluster all mentions that refer to the same entity in a given context. All coreference resolution systems need to solve two subtasks; one task is to detect all of the potential mentions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yu Wang , Hongxia Jin

It is often posited that more predictable parts of a speaker's meaning tend to be made less explicit, for instance using shorter, less informative words. Studying these dynamics in the domain of referring expressions has proven difficult,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Laura Aina , Xixian Liao , Gemma Boleda , Matthijs Westera

The most popular Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution (CDEC) datasets fail to convey the true difficulty of the task, due to the lack of lexical diversity between coreferring event triggers (words or phrases that refer to an event).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed , Zhiyong Eric Wang , George Arthur Baker , Kevin Stowe , James H. Martin

Following the principles of Cognitive Grammar, we concentrate on a model for reference resolution that attempts to overcome the difficulties previous approaches, based on the fundamental assumption that all reference (independent on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Susanne Salmon-Alt , Laurent Romary

Cross-document Event Coreference Resolution (CD-ECR) is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP) that seeks to determine whether event mentions across multiple documents refer to the same real-world occurrence. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Long Yao , Wenzhong Yang , Yabo Yin , Fuyuan Wei , Hongzhen Lv , Jiaren Peng , Liejun Wang , Xiaoming Tao

Cross-document event coreference resolution is a foundational task for NLP applications involving multi-text processing. However, existing corpora for this task are scarce and relatively small, while annotating only modest-size clusters of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Alon Eirew , Arie Cattan , Ido Dagan

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

We propose a sentence-incremental neural coreference resolution system which incrementally builds clusters after marking mention boundaries in a shift-reduce method. The system is aimed at bridging two recent approaches at coreference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Matt Grenander , Shay B. Cohen , Mark Steedman

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

Multimodal reference resolution, including phrase grounding, aims to understand the semantic relations between mentions and real-world objects. Phrase grounding between images and their captions is a well-established task. In contrast, for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shun Inadumi , Nobuhiro Ueda , Koichiro Yoshino