Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Multiparty Dialogue
Boyuan Zheng, Patrick Xia, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Benjamin Van Durme
Abstract
Existing multiparty dialogue datasets for entity coreference resolution are nascent, and many challenges are still unaddressed. We create a large-scale dataset, Multilingual Multiparty Coref (MMC), for this task based on TV transcripts. Due to the availability of gold-quality subtitles in multiple languages, we propose reusing the annotations to create silver coreference resolution data in other languages (Chinese and Farsi) via annotation projection. On the gold (English) data, off-the-shelf models perform relatively poorly on MMC, suggesting that MMC has broader coverage of multiparty coreference than prior datasets. On the silver data, we find success both using it for data augmentation and training from scratch, which effectively simulates the zero-shot cross-lingual setting.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.tacl-1.52
- Volume:
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 11
- Month:
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Cambridge, MA
- Venue:
- TACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Note:
- Pages:
- 922–940
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- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.tacl-1.52
- DOI:
- 10.1162/tacl_a_00581
- Cite (ACL):
- Boyuan Zheng, Patrick Xia, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, and Benjamin Van Durme. 2023. Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Multiparty Dialogue. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 11:922–940.
- Cite (Informal):
- Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Multiparty Dialogue (Zheng et al., TACL 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl24-info/2023.tacl-1.52.pdf