IMS HotCoref DE: A Data-driven Co-reference Resolver for German

Ina Roesiger, Jonas Kuhn


Abstract
This paper presents a data-driven co-reference resolution system for German that has been adapted from IMS HotCoref, a co-reference resolver for English. It describes the difficulties when resolving co-reference in German text, the adaptation process and the features designed to address linguistic challenges brought forth by German. We report performance on the reference dataset TüBa-D/Z and include a post-task SemEval 2010 evaluation, showing that the resolver achieves state-of-the-art performance. We also include ablation experiments that indicate that integrating linguistic features increases results. The paper also describes the steps and the format necessary to use the resolver on new texts. The tool is freely available for download.
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L16-1024
Volume:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
Month:
May
Year:
2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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155–160
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1024
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Ina Roesiger and Jonas Kuhn. 2016. IMS HotCoref DE: A Data-driven Co-reference Resolver for German. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 155–160, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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