Veronika Solopova


2020

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Adapting Coreference Resolution to Twitter Conversations
Berfin Aktaş | Veronika Solopova | Annalena Kohnert | Manfred Stede
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020

The performance of standard coreference resolution is known to drop significantly on Twitter texts. We improve the performance of the (Lee et al., 2018) system, which is originally trained on OntoNotes, by retraining on manually-annotated Twitter conversation data. Further experiments by combining different portions of OntoNotes with Twitter data show that selecting text genres for the training data can beat the mere maximization of training data amount. In addition, we inspect several phenomena such as the role of deictic pronouns in conversational data, and present additional results for variant settings. Our best configuration improves the performance of the”out of the box” system by 21.6%.