Using semantic relations to refine coreference decisions

  • Authors:
  • Heng Ji;David Westbrook;Ralph Grishman

  • Affiliations:
  • New York University New York, NY;New York University New York, NY;New York University New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present a novel mechanism for improving reference resolution by using the output of a relation tagger to rescore coreference hypotheses. Experiments show that this new framework can improve performance on two quite different languages - English and Chinese.