Implicit linguistic entities and the problem of coreference resolution

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titleImplicit linguistic entities and the problem of coreference resolution
start_date2011/10/28
schedule11h-13h
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summaryIn my talk I will present current research work in our laboratory which extends from deep linguistic processing, its application to Q/A, treebanking and parsing of oral corpora. At first I will introduce the problem of the recovery of implicit linguistic entities in the context of coreference resolution in open domain  texts, which can be regarded as the most important task to cope with in either IR/IE or Q/A. I will present attempts at solving it and experiments reported in the literature of NLP and in particular computational linguistics. As most researchers in the field, I also assume that in order to improve performance of any system, knowledge of the world, commonsense knowledge and precise linguistic information are all important prerequisites. I will concentrate then on some specific cases, using freely available corpora which I will use to test our system: in particular I will show text entailment and coreference resolution examples. As will appear, semantic representation should be made available to the modules taking care of coreference resolution. In turn, semantic representation requires to be properly treated for pronominal anaphora in order to be complete. I will then introduce the parallel topic of implicit arguments as they are treated within FrameNet framework and show a solution to that. I will make a short presentation of the Q/A system and show the effectiveness of a hybrid architecture.
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