Labeling Gaps Between Words: Recognizing Overlapping Mentions with Mention Separators

Aldrian Obaja Muis, Wei Lu


Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new model that is capable of recognizing overlapping mentions. We introduce a novel notion of mention separators that can be effectively used to capture how mentions overlap with one another. On top of a novel multigraph representation that we introduce, we show that efficient and exact inference can still be performed. We present some theoretical analysis on the differences between our model and a recently proposed model for recognizing overlapping mentions, and discuss the possible implications of the differences. Through extensive empirical analysis on standard datasets, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
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D17-1276
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2608–2618
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10.18653/v1/D17-1276
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Aldrian Obaja Muis and Wei Lu. 2017. Labeling Gaps Between Words: Recognizing Overlapping Mentions with Mention Separators. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2608–2618, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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