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This paper evaluates the impact that different clustering techniques may have on grouping referential mentions on rule-based coreference resolution systems. As a result, we show that our approach outperforms commonly applied methods.
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Fonseca, E., Vanin, A., Vieira, R. (2018). Mention Clustering to Improve Portuguese Semantic Coreference Resolution. In: Silberztein, M., Atigui, F., Kornyshova, E., Métais, E., Meziane, F. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10859. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91947-8_25
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