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Joint Coreference Resolution and Character Linking for Multiparty Conversation

27 Jan 2021EACL 2021 2arXiv:2101.11204archive 2025-07-28

Jiaxin Bai, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Kun Xu

Character linking, the task of linking mentioned people in conversations to the real world, is crucial for understanding the conversations. For the efficiency of communication, humans often choose to use pronouns (e.g., "she") or normal phrases (e.g., "that girl") rather than named entities (e.g., "Rachel") in the spoken language, which makes linking those mentions to real people a much more challenging than a regular entity linking task. To address this challenge, we propose to incorporate the richer context from the coreference relations among different mentions to help the linking. On the other hand, considering that finding coreference clusters itself is not a trivial task and could benefit from the global character information, we propose to jointly solve these two tasks. Specifically, we propose C², the joint learning model of Coreference resolution and Character linking. The experimental results demonstrate that C² can significantly outperform previous works on both tasks. Further analyses are conducted to analyze the contribution of all modules in the proposed model and the effect of all hyper-parameters.

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