Exploiting Cross-Lingual Hints to Discover Event Pronouns

Sharid Loáiciga, Christian Hardmeier, Asad Sayeed


Abstract
Non-nominal co-reference is much less studied than nominal coreference, partly because of the lack of annotated corpora. We explore the possibility to exploit parallel multilingual corpora as a means of cheap supervision for the classification of three different readings of the English pronoun ‘it’: entity, event or pleonastic, from their translation in several languages. We found that the ‘event’ reading is not very frequent, but can be easily predicted provided that the construction used to translate the ‘it’ example is a pronoun as well. These cases, nevertheless, are not enough to generalize to other types of non-nominal reference.
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2020.lrec-1.12
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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99–103
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.12
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Sharid Loáiciga, Christian Hardmeier, and Asad Sayeed. 2020. Exploiting Cross-Lingual Hints to Discover Event Pronouns. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 99–103, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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