Cristina Nicolae


2010

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C-3: Coherence and Coreference Corpus
Cristina Nicolae | Gabriel Nicolae | Kirk Roberts
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

The phenomenon of coreference, covering entities, their mentions and their properties, is intricately linked to the phenomenon of coherence, covering the structure of rhetorical relations in a discourse. A text corpus that has both phenomena annotated can be used to test hypotheses about their interrelation or to detect other phenomena. We present the process by which C-3, a new corpus, was obtained by annotating the Discourse GraphBank coherence corpus with entity and mention information. The annotation followed a set of ACE guidelines adapted to favor coreference and to include entities of unknown types in the annotation. Together with the corpus we offer a new annotation tool specifically designed to annotate entity and mention information within a simple and functional graphical interface that combines the “best of all worlds” from available annotation tools. The potential usefulness of C-3 is discussed, as well as an application in which the corpus proved to be a valuable resource.

2007

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UTD-HLT-CG: Semantic Architecture for Metonymy Resolution and Classification of Nominal Relations
Cristina Nicolae | Gabriel Nicolae | Sanda Harabagiu
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007)

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Textual Entailment Through Extended Lexical Overlap and Lexico-Semantic Matching
Rod Adams | Gabriel Nicolae | Cristina Nicolae | Sanda Harabagiu
Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing

2006

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BESTCUT: A Graph Algorithm for Coreference Resolution
Cristina Nicolae | Gabriel Nicolae
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing