XCoref: Cross-document Coreference Resolution in the Wild

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05252v1
• Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:41:09 GMT
• Title: XCoref: Cross-document Coreference Resolution in the Wild
• Authors: Anastasia Zhukova, Felix Hamborg, Karsten Donnay, and Bela Gipp
• Abstract summary: Bridging and loose coreference relations trigger associations that may expose news readers to bias by word choice and labeling. A step towards bringing awareness of bias by word choice and labeling is the reliable resolution of coreferences with high lexical diversity. We propose an unsupervised method named XCoref, which is a CDCR method that capably resolves entities, such as persons, "Donald Trump" In an extensive evaluation, we compare the proposed XCoref to a state-of-the-art CDCR method and a previous method TCA that resolves such complex coreference relations.
• Score: 8.586057042714698
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Datasets and methods for cross-document coreference resolution (CDCR) focus on events or entities with strict coreference relations. They lack, however, annotating and resolving coreference mentions with more abstract or loose relations that may occur when news articles report about controversial and polarized events. Bridging and loose coreference relations trigger associations that may lead to exposing news readers to bias by word choice and labeling. For example, coreferential mentions of "direct talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kim" such as "an extraordinary meeting following months of heated rhetoric" or "great chance to solve a world problem" form a more positive perception of this event. A step towards bringing awareness of bias by word choice and labeling is the reliable resolution of coreferences with high lexical diversity. We propose an unsupervised method named XCoref, which is a CDCR method that capably resolves not only previously prevalent entities, such as persons, e.g., "Donald Trump," but also abstractly defined concepts, such as groups of persons, "caravan of immigrants," events and actions, e.g., "marching to the U.S. border." In an extensive evaluation, we compare the proposed XCoref to a state-of-the-art CDCR method and a previous method TCA that resolves such complex coreference relations and find that XCoref outperforms these methods. Outperforming an established CDCR model shows that the new CDCR models need to be evaluated on semantically complex mentions with more loose coreference relations to indicate their applicability of models to resolve mentions in the "wild" of political news articles.

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