Free the Plural: Unrestricted Split-Antecedent Anaphora Resolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00245v1
• Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 11:21:39 GMT
• Title: Free the Plural: Unrestricted Split-Antecedent Anaphora Resolution
• Authors: Juntao Yu, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Silviu Paun and Massimo Poesio
• Abstract summary: We introduce the first model for unrestricted resolution of split-antecedent anaphors. We show that we can substantially improve its performance by addressing the sparsity issue. Evaluation on the gold annotated ARRAU corpus shows that the out best model uses a combination of three auxiliary corpora.
• Score: 23.843305521306227
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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 with multiple antecedents-so-called split-antecedent anaphors (as in John met Mary. They went to the movies) have not been widely studied, because they are not annotated in ONTONOTES and are relatively infrequent in other corpora. In this paper, we introduce the first model for unrestricted resolution of split-antecedent anaphors. We start with a strong baseline enhanced by BERT embeddings, and show that we can substantially improve its performance by addressing the sparsity issue. To do this, we experiment with auxiliary corpora where split-antecedent anaphors were annotated by the crowd, and with transfer learning models using element-of bridging references and single-antecedent coreference as auxiliary tasks. Evaluation on the gold annotated ARRAU corpus shows that the out best model uses a combination of three auxiliary corpora achieved F1 scores of 70% and 43.6% when evaluated in a lenient and strict setting, respectively, i.e., 11 and 21 percentage points gain when compared with our baseline.

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