Joint learning for coreference resolution with Markov logic

  • Authors:
  • Yang Song;Jing Jiang;Wayne Xin Zhao;Sujian Li;Houfeng Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics (Peking University) Ministry of Education, China;Singapore Management University, Singapore;Peking University, China;Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics (Peking University) Ministry of Education, China;Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics (Peking University) Ministry of Education, China

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Pairwise coreference resolution models must merge pairwise coreference decisions to generate final outputs. Traditional merging methods adopt different strategies such as the best-first method and enforcing the transitivity constraint, but most of these methods are used independently of the pairwise learning methods as an isolated inference procedure at the end. We propose a joint learning model which combines pairwise classification and mention clustering with Markov logic. Experimental results show that our joint learning system outperforms independent learning systems. Our system gives a better performance than all the learning-based systems from the CoNLL-2011 shared task on the same dataset. Compared with the best system from CoNLL-2011, which employs a rule-based method, our system shows competitive performance.