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Coreference Resolution: To What Extent Does It Help NLP Applications?

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2012)

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This paper describes a study of the impact of coreference resolution on NLP applications. Further to our previous study [1], in which we investigated whether anaphora resolution could be beneficial to NLP applications, we now seek to establish whether a different, but related task—that of coreference resolution, could improve the performance of three NLP applications: text summarisation, recognising textual entailment and text classification. The study discusses experiments in which the aforementioned applications were implemented in two versions, one in which the BART coreference resolution system was integrated and one in which it was not, and then tested in processing input text. The paper discusses the results obtained.

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    Ruslan Mitkov, Richard Evans, Constantin Orăsan, Iustin Dornescu & Miguel Rios

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Mitkov, R., Evans, R., Orăsan, C., Dornescu, I., Rios, M. (2012). Coreference Resolution: To What Extent Does It Help NLP Applications?. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7499. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_2

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