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title = "Anaphora Resolution Exercise: an Overview",
author = "Or{\u{a}}san, Constantin and
Cristea, Dan and
Mitkov, Ruslan and
Branco, Ant{\'o}nio",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios and
Tapias, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'08)",
month = may,
year = "2008",
address = "Marrakech, Morocco",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/713_paper.pdf",
abstract = "Evaluation campaigns have become an established way to evaluate automatic systems which tackle the same task. This paper presents the first edition of the Anaphora Resolution Exercise (ARE) and the lessons learnt from it. This first edition focused only on English pronominal anaphora and NP coreference, and was organised as an exploratory exercise where various issues were investigated. ARE proposed four different tasks: pronominal anaphora resolution and NP coreference resolution on a predefined set of entities, pronominal anaphora resolution and NP coreference resolution on raw texts. For each of these tasks different inputs and evaluation metrics were prepared. This paper presents the four tasks, their input data and evaluation metrics used. Even though a large number of researchers in the field expressed their interest to participate, only three institutions took part in the formal evaluation. The paper briefly presents their results, but does not try to interpret them because in this edition of ARE our aim was not about finding why certain methods are better, but to prepare the ground for a fully-fledged edition.",
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%T Anaphora Resolution Exercise: an Overview
%A Orăsan, Constantin
%A Cristea, Dan
%A Mitkov, Ruslan
%A Branco, António
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Tapias, Daniel
%S Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08)
%D 2008
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Marrakech, Morocco
%F orasan-etal-2008-anaphora
%X Evaluation campaigns have become an established way to evaluate automatic systems which tackle the same task. This paper presents the first edition of the Anaphora Resolution Exercise (ARE) and the lessons learnt from it. This first edition focused only on English pronominal anaphora and NP coreference, and was organised as an exploratory exercise where various issues were investigated. ARE proposed four different tasks: pronominal anaphora resolution and NP coreference resolution on a predefined set of entities, pronominal anaphora resolution and NP coreference resolution on raw texts. For each of these tasks different inputs and evaluation metrics were prepared. This paper presents the four tasks, their input data and evaluation metrics used. Even though a large number of researchers in the field expressed their interest to participate, only three institutions took part in the formal evaluation. The paper briefly presents their results, but does not try to interpret them because in this edition of ARE our aim was not about finding why certain methods are better, but to prepare the ground for a fully-fledged edition.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/713_paper.pdf
Markdown (Informal)
[Anaphora Resolution Exercise: an Overview](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/713_paper.pdf) (Orăsan et al., LREC 2008)
ACL
- Constantin Orăsan, Dan Cristea, Ruslan Mitkov, and António Branco. 2008. Anaphora Resolution Exercise: an Overview. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).