Coreference Resolution with World Knowledge

Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng
University of Texas at Dallas


Abstract

While world knowledge has been shown to improve learning-based coreference resolvers, such improvements were typically obtained by incorporating world knowledge into a fairly weak baseline resolver. Hence, it is not clear whether these benefits can carry over to a stronger baseline. Moreover, since there has been no attempt to apply different sources of world knowledge in combination to coreference resolution, it is not clear whether they offer complementary benefits to a resolver. We compare and evaluate commonly-used and under-investigated sources of world knowledge for coreference resolution by applying them to two learning-based coreference models and evaluating them on documents annotated with two different annotation schemes.




Full paper: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-1082.pdf