Exploring Coreference Resolution in Glosses of German Sign Language

Yuzheng Bao, Haixia Chai


Abstract
In recent years, research on sign languages has attracted increasing attention in the NLP community and requires more effort from a linguistic perspective. In this paper, we explore coreference resolution in German Sign Language (GSL) primarily through gloss-based analysis. Specifically, in GSL glosses, we conduct a linguistic analysis of coreference, add coreference annotations based on one video, and evaluate the ability of two large language models to resolve coreference. We gain valuable insights into coreference resolution in GSL, which pave the way for future research.
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2025.crac-1.7
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Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Michal Novak, Massimo Poesio, Sameer Pradhan, Vincent Ng
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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77–84
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Yuzheng Bao and Haixia Chai. 2025. Exploring Coreference Resolution in Glosses of German Sign Language. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, pages 77–84, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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