# Who is we? Disambiguating the referents of first person plural pronouns in parliamentary debates

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14182 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.14182/

## Key facts

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- First posted on arXiv 27 May 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation with Weak Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.10160/) (2017)
- [Data Programming: Creating Large Training Sets, Quickly](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1605.07723/) (2016)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper investigates the use of first person plural pronouns as a rhetorical device in political speeches. We present an annotation schema for disambiguating pronoun references and use our schema to create an annotated corpus of debates from the German Bundestag. We then use our corpus to learn to automatically resolve pronoun referents in parliamentary debates. We explore the use of data augmentation with weak supervision to further expand our corpus and report preliminary results.