Cross-lingual Incongruences in the Annotation of Coreference

Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Sharid Loáiciga, Christian Hardmeier, Pauline Krielke


Abstract
In the present paper, we deal with incongruences in English-German multilingual coreference annotation and present automated methods to discover them. More specifically, we automatically detect full coreference chains in parallel texts and analyse discrepancies in their annotations. In doing so, we wish to find out whether the discrepancies rather derive from language typological constraints, from the translation or the actual annotation process. The results of our study contribute to the referential analysis of similarities and differences across languages and support evaluation of cross-lingual coreference annotation. They are also useful for cross-lingual coreference resolution systems and contrastive linguistic studies.
Anthology ID:
W19-2805
Volume:
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, USA
Editors:
Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Sameer Pradhan, Yulia Grishina, Vincent Ng
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CRAC
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
26–34
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-2805
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-2805
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Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Sharid Loáiciga, Christian Hardmeier, and Pauline Krielke. 2019. Cross-lingual Incongruences in the Annotation of Coreference. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, pages 26–34, Minneapolis, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Cross-lingual Incongruences in the Annotation of Coreference (Lapshinova-Koltunski et al., CRAC 2019)
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