Sieve-based Coreference Resolution in the Biomedical Domain

Dane Bell, Gus Hahn-Powell, Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega, Mihai Surdeanu

Abstract
We describe challenges and advantages unique to coreference resolution in the biomedical domain, and a sieve-based architecture that leverages domain knowledge for both entity and event coreference resolution. Domain-general coreference resolution algorithms perform poorly on biomedical documents, because the cues they rely on such as gender are largely absent in this domain, and because they do not encode domain-specific knowledge such as the number and type of participants required in chemical reactions. Moreover, it is difficult to directly encode this knowledge into most coreference resolution algorithms because they are not rule-based. Our rule-based architecture uses sequentially applied hand-designed “sieves”, with the output of each sieve informing and constraining subsequent sieves. This architecture provides a 3.2% increase in throughput to our Reach event extraction system with precision parallel to that of the stricter system that relies solely on syntactic patterns for extraction.
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L16-1027
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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177–183
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Dane Bell, Gus Hahn-Powell, Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega, and Mihai Surdeanu. 2016. Sieve-based Coreference Resolution in the Biomedical Domain. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 177–183, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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