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<font size=3>On a more general note, visit<br>
<a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/download.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/download.htm</a><br>
for a selection of papers on coreference/anaphora resolution.<br>
This selection is updated on a regular basis<br>
<br>
Ruslan Mitkov<br>
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<br>
At 10:11 18/05/00 +1000, Einat Amitay wrote:<br>
>Hi Daniel,<br>
><br>
>Try these URLs and then follow the references they make.<br>
><br>
>interesting:<br>
><a href="http://www.cs.duke.edu/~amit/acl99-wkshp.html#program1" eudora="autourl">http://www.cs.duke.edu/~amit/acl99-wkshp.html#program1</a><br>
><a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~robertg/publications/papers_by_topic.html#Corefer" eudora="autourl">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~robertg/publications/papers_by_topic.html#Corefer</a><br>
>ence<br>
>Resolution<br>
><a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kwh/auto_papers.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kwh/auto_papers.html</a><br>
><a href="http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/gaines92integrated.html" eudora="autourl">http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/gaines92integrated.html</a><br>
><a href="http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/gaines95concept.html" eudora="autourl">http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/gaines95concept.html</a><br>
><a href="http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/kehler97probabilistic.html" eudora="autourl">http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/kehler97probabilistic.html</a><br>
><a href="http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/did/216478" eudora="autourl">http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/did/216478</a><br>
><br>
>system:<br>
><a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/gate/" eudora="autourl">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/gate/</a><br>
><br>
>Daniel Winchester wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Dear All,<br>
>><br>
>> I have recently undertaken a NLP PhD with the working title
of<br>
>> 'Cross-Document Coreference' in the computer science department
of the<br>
>> University of Birmingham. To get to the point, I am
using the term<br>
>> cross-document coreference to denote multiple, and often
variant,<br>
>> references to the same entity from different texts. This
usage follows<br>
>> from the handful of papers from the NLP community that outline
systems<br>
>> designed to disambiguate such references (e.g.. the work of
Breck<br>
>> Baldwin and Amit Bagga).<br>
>><br>
>> Thus; in different documents, 'Clinton', 'William Clinton',
'William<br>
>> Jefferson Clinton' etc. ,when referring to the president, could
all be<br>
>> said to 'corefer' but 'Bill Clinton', the new york policeman
or<br>
>> 'Clinton', the town in Arizona would not.<br>
>><br>
>> I am aware that this 'coreference' is profoundly different from
that<br>
>> found within documents, and that the terminology itself is<br>
>> problematic. Coreference within a discourse/text
relies on<br>
>> relationships that are intended to allow the reader to resolve
any<br>
>> ambiguity, this is obviously not the case for references in
unrelated<br>
>> texts to the same entity. Nevertheless, for the time being
I will use<br>
>> the term cross-document coreference.<br>
>><br>
>> I am hoping for some help on the following:<br>
>><br>
>> 1. Are there any corpora available that are marked for
cross-document<br>
>> coreference?<br>
>><br>
>> I know that this is
unlikely but anything where all references in<br>
>> the corpus to the same entity are related in some way would be
very<br>
>> useful.<br>
>><br>
>> 2. Does anyone know if this sort of work is being done or
has been done<br>
>> elsewhere under a different name or in a different
discipline?<br>
>><br>
>> It seems the
sort of task that Information Retrieval (IR) would<br>
>> be interested in, but, to date, I have found no equivalent
work.<br>
>> I'm basically
after any suggestions that people might have for<br>
>> where this is already being looked at, for other news groups
that I<br>
>> should post a query on, or for alternative disciplines and
terminology<br>
>> that might be relevant.<br>
>><br>
>> Hope that you will be able to help.<br>
>><br>
>> Kind Regards<br>
>><br>
>> Daniel Winchester<br>
>><br>
>> Research Student<br>
>> Computer Science Dept<br>
>> University of Birmingham<br>
><br>
>--<br>
>Einat Amitay<br>
>einat@ics.mq.edu.au<br>
><a href="http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat" eudora="autourl">http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat</a><br>
><br>
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