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A Twin-Candidate Model of Coreference Resolution with Non-Anaphor Identification Capability

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Although effective for antecedent determination, the traditional twin-candidate model can not prevent the invalid resolution of non-anaphors without additional measures. In this paper we propose a modified learning framework for the twin-candidate model. In the new framework, we make use of non-anaphors to create a special class of training instances, which leads to a classifier capable of identifying the cases of non-anaphors during resolution. In this way, the twin-candidate model itself could avoid the resolution of non-anaphors, and thus could be directly deployed to coreference resolution. The evaluation done on newswire domain shows that the twin-candidate based system with our modified framework achieves better and more reliable performance than those with other solutions.

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Yang, X., Su, J., Tan, C.L. (2005). A Twin-Candidate Model of Coreference Resolution with Non-Anaphor Identification Capability. In: Dale, R., Wong, KF., Su, J., Kwong, O.Y. (eds) Natural Language Processing – IJCNLP 2005. IJCNLP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3651. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11562214_63

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