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Rethinking anaphora
Abstract
Massimo Poesio
Keynote speaker
Current models of the anaphora resolution task achieve mediocre results for all but the
simpler aspects of the task such as coreference proper (i.e. linking proper names into
coreference chains). One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the drastically
simplified picture of the task at the basis of existing annotated resources and modelse.g.,
the assumption that human subjects by and large agree on anaphoric judgments.
In this talk I will present the current state of our efforts to collect more realistic
judgments about anaphora through the Phrase Detectives online game, and to develop
models of anaphora resolution that do not rely on the total agreement assumption.
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