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Revealing the Myth of Higher-Order Inference in Coreference Resolution

arXiv 2009.12013 ↗First posted 25 Sep 2020cs.CL cs.LGcited by 49

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This paper analyzes the impact of higher-order inference (HOI) on the task of coreference resolution. HOI has been adapted by almost all recent coreference resolution models without taking much investigation on its true effectiveness over representation learning. To make a comprehensive analysis, we implement an end-to-end coreference system as well as four HOI approaches, attended antecedent, entity equalization, span clustering, and cluster merging, where the latter two are our original methods. We find that given a high-performing encoder such as SpanBERT, the impact of HOI is negative to marginal, providing a new perspective of HOI to this task. Our best model using cluster merging shows the Avg-F1 of 80.2 on the CoNLL 2012 shared task dataset in English.

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  9. 2022F-coref: Fast, Accurate and Easy to Use Coreference Resolutioncited by 23
  10. 2023BERT Based Clinical Knowledge Extraction for Biomedical Knowledge Graph Construction and Analysiscited by 18
  11. 2021Multilingual Coreference Resolution with Harmonized Annotationscited by 13
  12. 2021Sequential Cross-Document Coreference Resolutioncited by 12
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  5. 2021End-to-end Neural Coreference Resolution Revisited: A Simple yet Effective Baselinecited by 7
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  7. 2021Towards Consistent Document-level Entity Linking: Joint Models for Entity Linking and Coreference Resolutioncited by 6
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  11. 2023SIG: Speaker Identification in Literature via Prompt-Based Generationcited by 4
  12. 2024A Controlled Reevaluation of Coreference Resolution Modelscited by 4
  13. 2025The Elephant in the Coreference Room: Resolving Coreference in Full-Length French Fiction Workscited by 4
  14. 2022A Structured Span Selectorcited by 3
  15. 2024Exploring Multiple Strategies to Improve Multilingual Coreference Resolution in CorefUDcited by 3
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  18. 2022Online Coreference Resolution for Dialogue Processing: Improving Mention-Linking on Real-Time Conversationscited by 2
  19. 2022Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Multiparty Dialoguecited by 2
  20. 2023Linear-Time Modeling of Linguistic Structure: An Order-Theoretic Perspectivecited by 2
  21. 2023Sentence-Incremental Neural Coreference Resolutioncited by 2
  22. 2023Parallel Data Helps Neural Entity Coreference Resolutioncited by 2
  23. 2024Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Low-resource South Asian Languagescited by 2
  24. 2022End-to-End Neural Discourse Deixis Resolution in Dialoguecited by 1
  25. 2024KoCoNovel: Annotated Dataset of Character Coreference in Korean Novelscited by 1
  26. 2021Anaphoric Binding: an integrated overviewcited by 0
  27. 2021An analysis of full-size Russian complexly NER labelled corpus of Internet user reviews on the drugs based on deep learning and language neural netscited by 0
  28. 2021Improving Span Representation for Domain-adapted Coreference Resolutioncited by 0
  29. 2022Incorporating Constituent Syntax for Coreference Resolutioncited by 0
  30. 2022NL2GDPR: Automatically Develop GDPR Compliant Android Application Features from Natural Languagecited by 0
  31. 2022Review of coreference resolution in English and Persiancited by 0
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  33. 2023Ensemble Transfer Learning for Multilingual Coreference Resolutioncited by 0
  34. 2023Light Coreference Resolution for Russian with Hierarchical Discourse Featurescited by 0
  35. 2024Persian Pronoun Resolution: Leveraging Neural Networks and Language Modelscited by 0
  36. 2025Reverse Probing: Evaluating Knowledge Transfer via Finetuned Task Embeddings for Coreference Resolutioncited by 0
  37. 2026Multilingual Coreference Resolution via Cycle-Consistent Machine Translationcited by 0