We investigate two publicly available web knowledge bases, Wikipedia and Yago, in an attempt to leverage semantic information and increase the performance level of a state-of-the-art coreference resolution (CR) engine. We extract semantic compatibility and aliasing information from Wikipedia and Yago, and incorporate it into a CR system. We show that using such knowledge with no disambiguation and filtering does not bring any improvement over the baseline, mirroring the previous findings (Ponzetto and Poesio 2009). We propose, therefore, a number of solutions to reduce the amount of noise coming from web resources: using disambiguation tools for Wikipedia, pruning Yago to eliminate the most generic categories and imposing additional constraints on affected mentions. Our evaluation experiments on the ACE-02 corpus show that the knowledge, extracted from Wikipedia and Yago, improves our system's performance by 2-3 percentage points.

Disambiguation and filtering methods in using web knowledge for coreference resolution

Uryupina, Olga;Poesio, Massimo;Tymoshenko, Kateryna
2011-01-01

Abstract

We investigate two publicly available web knowledge bases, Wikipedia and Yago, in an attempt to leverage semantic information and increase the performance level of a state-of-the-art coreference resolution (CR) engine. We extract semantic compatibility and aliasing information from Wikipedia and Yago, and incorporate it into a CR system. We show that using such knowledge with no disambiguation and filtering does not bring any improvement over the baseline, mirroring the previous findings (Ponzetto and Poesio 2009). We propose, therefore, a number of solutions to reduce the amount of noise coming from web resources: using disambiguation tools for Wikipedia, pruning Yago to eliminate the most generic categories and imposing additional constraints on affected mentions. Our evaluation experiments on the ACE-02 corpus show that the knowledge, extracted from Wikipedia and Yago, improves our system's performance by 2-3 percentage points.
2011
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Palo Alto, CA, USA
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
9781577355014
Uryupina, Olga; Poesio, Massimo; C., Giuliano; Tymoshenko, Kateryna
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