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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14182v1
• Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 18:18:04 GMT
• Title: Who is we? Disambiguating the referents of first person plural pronouns in parliamentary debates
• Authors: Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer and Julian Bernauer
• Abstract summary: 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.
• Score: 9.09904590211839
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: 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.

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