@inproceedings{loaiciga-etal-2020-exploiting,
    title = "Exploiting Cross-Lingual Hints to Discover Event Pronouns",
    author = "Lo{\'a}iciga, Sharid  and
      Hardmeier, Christian  and
      Sayeed, Asad",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric  and
      Blache, Philippe  and
      Choukri, Khalid  and
      Cieri, Christopher  and
      Declerck, Thierry  and
      Goggi, Sara  and
      Isahara, Hitoshi  and
      Maegaard, Bente  and
      Mariani, Joseph  and
      Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne  and
      Moreno, Asuncion  and
      Odijk, Jan  and
      Piperidis, Stelios",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Ingest-2025-COMPUTEL/2020.lrec-1.12/",
    pages = "99--103",
    language = "eng",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
    abstract = "Non-nominal co-reference is much less studied than nominal coreference, partly because of the lack of annotated corpora. We explore the possibility to exploit parallel multilingual corpora as a means of cheap supervision for the classification of three different readings of the English pronoun {\textquoteleft}it': entity, event or pleonastic, from their translation in several languages. We found that the {\textquoteleft}event' reading is not very frequent, but can be easily predicted provided that the construction used to translate the {\textquoteleft}it' example is a pronoun as well. These cases, nevertheless, are not enough to generalize to other types of non-nominal reference."
}