AmbiCoRefVis: A Tool for Visualizing Coreferential Ambiguity

Patrick Paetzold, Lukas Beiske, Mark-Matthias Zymla, Massimo Poesio, Miriam Butt, Daniel Weiskopf, Oliver Deussen


Abstract
Situations of ambiguity and uncertainty in the annotation of discourse interpretation tasks, such as anaphoric reference, are common, but existing annotation tools typically only support visualization at the local level (i.e., visualizing more than one mention of a possible antecedent) rather than globally (i.e., visualizing multiple coreference chains), as the latter is a complex problem. In this paper, we introduce the interactive visual analysis tool AmbiCoRefVis, developed to display multiple global interpretations of a referring expression. We evaluate it with the Phrase Detectives corpus.
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2026.lrec-main.144
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Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2026
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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Patrick Paetzold, Lukas Beiske, Mark-Matthias Zymla, Massimo Poesio, Miriam Butt, Daniel Weiskopf, and Oliver Deussen. 2026. AmbiCoRefVis: A Tool for Visualizing Coreferential Ambiguity. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, main:1842–1855.
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