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title = "Knowledge-aware Pronoun Coreference Resolution",
author = "Zhang, Hongming and
Song, Yan and
Song, Yangqiu and
Yu, Dong",
editor = "Korhonen, Anna and
Traum, David and
M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'\i}s",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-1083",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1083",
pages = "867--876",
abstract = "Resolving pronoun coreference requires knowledge support, especially for particular domains (e.g., medicine). In this paper, we explore how to leverage different types of knowledge to better resolve pronoun coreference with a neural model. To ensure the generalization ability of our model, we directly incorporate knowledge in the format of triplets, which is the most common format of modern knowledge graphs, instead of encoding it with features or rules as that in conventional approaches. Moreover, since not all knowledge is helpful in certain contexts, to selectively use them, we propose a knowledge attention module, which learns to select and use informative knowledge based on contexts, to enhance our model. Experimental results on two datasets from different domains prove the validity and effectiveness of our model, where it outperforms state-of-the-art baselines by a large margin. Moreover, since our model learns to use external knowledge rather than only fitting the training data, it also demonstrates superior performance to baselines in the cross-domain setting.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Knowledge-aware Pronoun Coreference Resolution](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1083) (Zhang et al., ACL 2019)
ACL
- Hongming Zhang, Yan Song, Yangqiu Song, and Dong Yu. 2019. Knowledge-aware Pronoun Coreference Resolution. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 867–876, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.