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We introduce a novel iterative approach for event coreference resolution that gradually builds event clusters by exploiting inter-dependencies among event mentions within the same chain as well as across event chains. Among event mentions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Ruihong Huang

We present an approach to event coreference resolution by developing a general framework for clustering that uses supervised representation learning. We propose a neural network architecture with novel Clustering-Oriented Regularization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Kian Kenyon-Dean , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung , Doina Precup

Relating entities and events in text is a key component of natural language understanding. Cross-document coreference resolution, in particular, is important for the growing interest in multi-document analysis tasks. In this work we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Emily Allaway , Shuai Wang , Miguel Ballesteros

A long-standing challenge in coreference resolution has been the incorporation of entity-level information - features defined over clusters of mentions instead of mention pairs. We present a neural network based coreference system that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Kevin Clark , Christopher D. Manning

Traditional event coreference systems usually rely on pipeline framework and hand-crafted features, which often face error propagation problem and have poor generalization ability. In this paper, we propose an End-to-End Event Coreference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin , Jialong Tang , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

Events in text documents are interrelated in complex ways. In this paper, we study two types of relation: Event Coreference and Event Sequencing. We show that the popular tree-like decoding structure for automated Event Coreference is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Zhengzhong Liu , Teruko Mitamura , Eduard Hovy

Research in CDCR remains fragmented due to heterogeneous dataset formats, varying annotation standards, and the predominance of the CDCR definition as the event coreference resolution (ECR). To address these challenges, we introduce uCDCR,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Anastasia Zhukova , Terry Ruas , Jan Philip Wahle , Bela Gipp

We consider the task of document-level entity linking (EL), where it is important to make consistent decisions for entity mentions over the full document jointly. We aim to leverage explicit "connections" among mentions within the document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Klim Zaporojets , Johannes Deleu , Yiwei Jiang , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

Cross-document event coreference resolution (CDCR) is an NLP task in which mentions of events need to be identified and clustered throughout a collection of documents. CDCR aims to benefit downstream multi-document applications, but despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Michael Bugert , Nils Reimers , Iryna Gurevych

As an essential task in information extraction (IE), Event-Event Causal Relation Extraction (ECRE) aims to identify and classify the causal relationships between event mentions in natural language texts. However, existing research on ECRE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zimu Wang , Lei Xia , Wei Wang , Xinya Du

Cross-document co-reference resolution (CDCR) is the task of identifying and linking mentions to entities and concepts across many text documents. Current state-of-the-art models for this task assume that all documents are of the same type…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-01 James Ravenscroft , Arie Cattan , Amanda Clare , Ido Dagan , Maria Liakata

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

The task of Cross-document Coreference Resolution has been traditionally formulated as requiring to identify all coreference links across a given set of documents. We propose an appealing, and often more applicable, complementary set up for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Alon Eirew , Avi Caciularu , Ido Dagan

Coreference resolution aims to identify in a text all mentions that refer to the same real-world entity. The state-of-the-art end-to-end neural coreference model considers all text spans in a document as potential mentions and learns to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Rui Zhang , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Michihiro Yasunaga , Bing Xiang , Dragomir Radev

We present a novel hierarchical distance-dependent Bayesian model for event coreference resolution. While existing generative models for event coreference resolution are completely unsupervised, our model allows for the incorporation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Bishan Yang , Claire Cardie , Peter Frazier

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

Based on Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs), event coreference resolution (ECR) systems have demonstrated outstanding performance in clustering coreferential events across documents. However, the existing system exhibits an excessive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Bowen Ding , Qingkai Min , Shengkun Ma , Yingjie Li , Linyi Yang , Yue Zhang

Coreference resolution across multiple documents poses a significant challenge in natural language processing, particularly within the domain of knowledge graphs. This study introduces an innovative method aimed at identifying and resolving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zhang Dong , Mingbang Wang , Songhang deng , Le Dai , Jiyuan Li , Xingzu Liu , Ruilin Nong

Datasets and methods for cross-document coreference resolution (CDCR) focus on events or entities with strict coreference relations. They lack, however, annotating and resolving coreference mentions with more abstract or loose relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Anastasia Zhukova , Felix Hamborg , Karsten Donnay , Bela Gipp

Coreference Resolution (CR) is a fundamental NLP task critical for long-form tasks as information extraction, summarization, and many business applications. However, CR methods originally designed for English struggle with Morphologically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Refael Shaked Greenfeld , Reut Tsarfaty