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Coreference Resolution Examples: CS 4650/7650, Prof Jacob Eisenstein

This document provides examples of coreference resolution: 1) It discusses heuristics like recency, prominence, and parallelism that can help determine coreferences. 2) It also discusses how coreference resolution goes beyond simple heuristics to consider context, pronouns that don't refer to entities, names, and nominals. 3) Resolving coreferences accurately requires understanding the context and world knowledge about the entities mentioned.

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Coreference Resolution Examples: CS 4650/7650, Prof Jacob Eisenstein

This document provides examples of coreference resolution: 1) It discusses heuristics like recency, prominence, and parallelism that can help determine coreferences. 2) It also discusses how coreference resolution goes beyond simple heuristics to consider context, pronouns that don't refer to entities, names, and nominals. 3) Resolving coreferences accurately requires understanding the context and world knowledge about the entities mentioned.

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Coreference Resolution Examples

CS 4650/7650, Prof Jacob Eisenstein

April 2018
Example

Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook has jetted into China for talks
with government officials as he seeks to clear up a pile of problems
in the firm’s biggest growth market. . . Cook is on his first trip to
the country since taking over. . .
Heuristics: recency

I The doctor found an old map in the captain’s chest.


I Jim found an even older map hidden on the shelf.
I It described an island.
Heuristics: prominence

I Asha loaned Mei a book on Spanish.


I She is always trying to help people.
Heuristics: parallelism

I Asha loaned Mei a book on Spanish.


I Olya loaned her a book on Portuguese.
Beyond heuristics

I The city council denied the protesters a permit because they


feared violence.
I The city council denied the protesters a permit because they
advocated violence.
Pronouns that do not refer to entities

I They told me I was too ugly for show business, but I didn’t
believe it.
I Asha saw Babak get angry, and I saw it too.
I Asha said she worked in security. That’s one way to put it.
I Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it.
I It’s too bad we have to work so hard.
Names

Match on heads?

I [Apple Inc Chief Executive [Tim Cook]] . . . [Cook] is on his


first trip . . .
Nominals

Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook has jetted into China for talks
with government officials as he seeks to clear up a pile of problems
in the firm’s biggest growth market. . . Cook is on his first trip to
the country since taking over. . .

I Talks, the firm, the firm’s biggest growth market, the country
I These seem to require world knowledge to address.

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