Exploring the utility of coreference chains for improved identification of personal names

Andrea Glaser, Jonas Kuhn

Abstract
Identifying the real world entity that a proper name refers to is an important task in many NLP applications. Context plays an important role in disambiguating entities with the same names. In this paper, we discuss a dataset and experimental set-up that allows us to systematically explore the effects of different sizes and types of context in this disambiguation task. We create context by first identifying coreferent expressions in the document and then combining sentences these expressions occur in to one informative context. We apply different filters to obtain different levels of coreference-based context. Since hand-labeling a dataset of a decent size is expensive, we investigate the usefulness of an automatically created pseudo-ambiguity dataset. The results on this pseudo-ambiguity dataset show that using coreference-based context performs better than using a fixed window of context around the entity. The insights taken from the pseudo data experiments can be used to predict how the method works with real data. In our experiments on real data we obtain comparable results.
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L14-1670
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2570–2577
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/865_Paper.pdf
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Andrea Glaser and Jonas Kuhn. 2014. Exploring the utility of coreference chains for improved identification of personal names. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 2570–2577, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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