Cross-document Coreference Resolution over Predicted Mentions

Arie Cattan, Alon Eirew, Gabriel Stanovsky, Mandar Joshi, Ido Dagan

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Abstract

Coreference resolution has been mostly investigated within a single document scope, showing impressive progress in recent years based on end-to-end models. However, the more challenging task of cross-document (CD) coreference resolution remained relatively under-explored, with the few recent models applied only to gold mentions. Here, we introduce the first end-to-end model for CD coreference resolution from raw text, which extends the prominent model for within-document coreference to the CD setting. Our model achieves competitive results for event and entity coreference resolution on gold mentions. More importantly, we set first baseline results, on the standard ECB+ dataset, for CD coreference resolution over predicted mentions. Further, our model is simpler and more efficient than recent CD coreference resolution systems, while not using any external resources.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publicationACL-IJCNLP 2021
EditorsChengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages5100-5107
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781954085541
StatePublished - 2021
EventFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 1 Aug 20216 Aug 2021

Publication series

NameFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Conference

ConferenceFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period1/08/216/08/21

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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