Variation in Coreference Strategies across Genres and Production Media
Abstract
In response to (i) inconclusive results in the literature as to the properties of coreference chains in written versus spoken language, and (ii) a general lack of work on automatic coreference resolution on both spoken language and social media, we undertake a corpus study involving the various genre sections of Ontonotes, the Switchboard corpus, and a corpus of Twitter conversations. Using a set of measures that previously have been applied individually to different data sets, we find fairly clear patterns of “behavior” for the different genres/media. Besides their role for psycholinguistic investigation (why do we employ different coreference strategies when we write or speak) and for the placement of Twitter in the spoken–written continuum, we see our results as a contribution to approaching genre-/media-specific coreference resolution.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{aktas-stede-2020-variation,
title = "Variation in Coreference Strategies across Genres and Production Media",
author = "Akta{\c{s}}, Berfin and
Stede, Manfred",
editor = "Scott, Donia and
Bel, Nuria and
Zong, Chengqing",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.508/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.508",
pages = "5774--5785"
}