Errors in coreference resolution in German: Effects of modality, simplification and heterogeneous training data

Sarah Jablotschkin, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Heike Zinsmeister


Abstract
Errors in automatic coreference resolution can be traced back to errors in mention detection and coreference linking. In this paper, we analyse the errors in mention detection produced by the coreference resolver CorPipe (Straka 2023). In particular, we evaluate the performance on different variants of German (written, spoken, original, and simplified). We discuss the errors against the background of the fact that the tool was trained on a combination of different coreference corpora, including two German datasets with partially conflicting annotation guidelines. The results indicate that simplification has a significant effect on mention detection independent of the modality.
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2026.codi-1.14
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Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, Context and Document-Level Inferences and Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CODI-CRAC 2026)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Chloé Braud, Christian Hardmeier, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Sharid Loaiciga, Amir Zeldes, Michal Novák, Chuyuan Li, Michael Strube, Junyi Jessy Li
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Sarah Jablotschkin, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, and Heike Zinsmeister. 2026. Errors in coreference resolution in German: Effects of modality, simplification and heterogeneous training data. In Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, Context and Document-Level Inferences and Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CODI-CRAC 2026), pages 109–119, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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