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Coreference Resolution with Entity Equalization

1 Jul 2019ACL 2019 7archive 2025-07-28

Ben Kantor, Amir Globerson

A key challenge in coreference resolution is to capture properties of entity clusters, and use those in the resolution process. Here we provide a simple and effective approach for achieving this, via an {``}Entity Equalization{''} mechanism. The Equalization approach represents each mention in a cluster via an approximation of the sum of all mentions in the cluster. We show how this can be done in a fully differentiable end-to-end manner, thus enabling high-order inferences in the resolution process. Our approach, which also employs BERT embeddings, results in new state-of-the-art results on the CoNLL-2012 coreference resolution task, improving average F1 by 3.6{\%}.

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Coreference Resolution CoNLL 2012 EE + BERT-large Avg F1 76.61 #12 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Coreference Resolution OntoNotes BERT + EE F1 76.61 #16 of 26 Archive leaderboard report

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