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Coreference resolution in a modular, entity-centered model

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HLT '10: Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Published: 02 June 2010 Publication History

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Coreference resolution is governed by syntactic, semantic, and discourse constraints. We present a generative, model-based approach in which each of these factors is modularly encapsulated and learned in a primarily unsu-pervised manner. Our semantic representation first hypothesizes an underlying set of latent entity types, which generate specific entities that in turn render individual mentions. By sharing lexical statistics at the level of abstract entity types, our model is able to substantially reduce semantic compatibility errors, resulting in the best results to date on the complete end-to-end coreference task.

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