Comparison of classification and ranking approaches to pronominal anaphora resolution in Czech

  • Authors:
  • Nguy Giang Linh;Vá/clav Nová/k;Zdeně/k Zcaron/abokrtský/

  • Affiliations:
  • Charles University in Prague, Malostranské/ ná/mě/stí/, CZ;Charles University in Prague, Malostranské/ ná/mě/stí/, CZ;Charles University in Prague, Malostranské/ ná/mě/stí/, CZ

  • Venue:
  • SIGDIAL '09 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we compare two Machine Learning approaches to the task of pronominal anaphora resolution: a conventional classification system based on C5.0 decision trees, and a novel perceptron-based ranker. We use coreference links annotated in the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0 for training and evaluation purposes. The perceptron system achieves f-score 79.43% on recognizing coreference of personal and possessive pronouns, which clearly outperforms the classifier and which is the best result reported on this data set so far.