Graph Refinement for Coreference Resolution

Lesly Miculicich, James Henderson


Abstract
The state-of-the-art models for coreference resolution are based on independent mention pair-wise decisions. We propose a modelling approach that learns coreference at the document-level and takes global decisions. For this purpose, we model coreference links in a graph structure where the nodes are tokens in the text, and the edges represent the relationship between them. Our model predicts the graph in a non-autoregressive manner, then iteratively refines it based on previous predictions, allowing global dependencies between decisions. The experimental results show improvements over various baselines, reinforcing the hypothesis that document-level information improves conference resolution.
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2022.findings-acl.215
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022
Month:
May
Year:
2022
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Dublin, Ireland
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Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2732–2742
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/2022.findings-acl.215/
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.215
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Lesly Miculicich and James Henderson. 2022. Graph Refinement for Coreference Resolution. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, pages 2732–2742, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Graph Refinement for Coreference Resolution (Miculicich & Henderson, Findings 2022)
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