Revisiting joint modeling of cross-document entity and event coreference resolution

Shany Barhom, Vered Shwartz, Alon Eirew, Michael Bugert, Nils Reimers, Ido Dagan

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Abstract

Recognizing coreferring events and entities across multiple texts is crucial for many NLP applications. Despite the task's importance, research focus was given mostly to within-document entity coreference, with rather little attention to the other variants. We propose a neural architecture for cross-document coreference resolution. Inspired by Lee et al. (2012), we jointly model entity and event coreference. We represent an event (entity) mention using its lexical span, surrounding context, and relation to entity (event) mentions via predicate-arguments structures. Our model outperforms the previous state-of-the-art event coreference model on ECB+, while providing the first entity coreference results on this corpus. Our analysis confirms that all our representation elements, including the mention span itself, its context, and the relation to other mentions contribute to the model's success.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages4179-4189
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781950737482
StatePublished - 2020
Event57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2019 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 28 Jul 20192 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2019
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period28/07/192/08/19

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Language and Linguistics
  • General Computer Science
  • Linguistics and Language

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