Resolving bridging references in unrestricted text

Authors:
Massimo Poesio;Renata Vieira;Simone Teufel
Affiliations:
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Venue:
ANARESOLUTION '97 Proceedings of a Workshop on Operational Factors in Practical, Robust Anaphora Resolution for Unrestricted Texts
Year:
1997

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Abstract

Our goal is to develop a system capable of treating the largest possible subset of definite descriptions in unrestricted written texts. A previous prototype resolved anaphoric uses of definite descriptions and identified some types of first-mention uses, achieving a recall of 56%. In this paper we present the latest version of our system, which handles some types of bridging references, uses WordNet as a source of lexical knowledge, and achieves a recall of 65%.