Resolving Event Coreference with Supervised Representation Learning and Clustering-Oriented Regularization

Kian Kenyon-Dean, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Doina Precup


Abstract
We present an approach to event coreference resolution by developing a general framework for clustering that uses supervised representation learning. We propose a neural network architecture with novel Clustering-Oriented Regularization (CORE) terms in the objective function. These terms encourage the model to create embeddings of event mentions that are amenable to clustering. We then use agglomerative clustering on these embeddings to build event coreference chains. For both within- and cross-document coreference on the ECB+ corpus, our model obtains better results than models that require significantly more pre-annotated information. This work provides insight and motivating results for a new general approach to solving coreference and clustering problems with representation learning.
Anthology ID:
S18-2001
Volume:
Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Malvina Nissim, Jonathan Berant, Alessandro Lenci
Venue:
*SEM
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SIGSEM | SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1–10
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S18-2001
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S18-2001
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Kian Kenyon-Dean, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, and Doina Precup. 2018. Resolving Event Coreference with Supervised Representation Learning and Clustering-Oriented Regularization. In Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 1–10, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Resolving Event Coreference with Supervised Representation Learning and Clustering-Oriented Regularization (Kenyon-Dean et al., *SEM 2018)
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