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Silviu Paun

4 accepted papers

2024

Universal Anaphora: The First Three Years

COLING 2024main

The aim of the Universal Anaphora initiative is to push forward the state of the art in anaphora and anaphora resolution by expanding the aspects of anaphoric interpretation which are or can be reliably annotated in anaphoric corpora, producing unified standards to annotate and encode these annotati…

2021

Beyond Black & White: Leveraging Annotator Disagreement via Soft-Label Multi-Task Learning

NAACL 2021long

Supervised learning assumes that a ground truth label exists. However, the reliability of this ground truth depends on human annotators, who often disagree. Prior work has shown that this disagreement can be helpful in training models. We propose a novel method to incorporate this disagreement as in…

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2021

Stay Together: A System for Single and Split-antecedent Anaphora Resolution

NAACL 2021long

The state-of-the-art on basic, single-antecedent anaphora has greatly improved in recent years. Researchers have therefore started to pay more attention to more complex cases of anaphora such as split-antecedent anaphora, as in “Time-Warner is considering a legal challenge to Telecommunications Inc’…

2020

Free the Plural: Unrestricted Split-Antecedent Anaphora Resolution

COLING 2020main

Now that the performance of coreference resolvers on the simpler forms of anaphoric reference has greatly improved, more attention is devoted to more complex aspects of anaphora. One limitation of virtually all coreference resolution models is the focus on single-antecedent anaphors. Plural anaphors…