Anaphora resolution: to what extent does it help NLP applications?

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titleAnaphora resolution: to what extent does it help NLP applications?
start_date2007/12/11
schedule14h-17h
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detailsLes exposés et la discussion seront en anglais
summaryResearch in anaphora resolution has focused almost exclusively on the intrinsic evaluation of the algorithm/system and not on the issue of extrinsic evaluation. In the context of anaphora resolution, extrinsic evaluation is concerned with the impact of an anaphora resolution module on a larger NLP system of which it is part. In this presentation I shall discuss whether the well-known anaphora resolution system MARS (Mitkov et al. 2002) can improve (and if it can, to what extent?) or not the performance of three NLP applications: text summarisation, term extraction and text categorisation..
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