The taming of reconcile as a biomedical coreference resolver

  • Authors:
  • Youngjun Kim;Ellen Riloff;Nathan Gilbert

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT;University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT;University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

  • Venue:
  • BioNLP Shared Task '11 Proceedings of the BioNLP Shared Task 2011 Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

To participate in the Protein Coreference section of the BioNLP 2011 Shared Task, we use Reconcile, a coreference resolution engine, by replacing some pre-processing components and adding a new mention detector. We got some improvement from training two separate classifiers for detecting anaphora and antecedent mentions. Our system yielded the highest score in the task, F-score 34.05% in partial mention, protein links, and system recall mode. We witnessed that specialized mention detection is crucial for coreference resolution in the biomedical domain.