Mention detection: First steps in the development of a Basque coreference resolution system

Ander Soraluze; Olatz Arregi; Xabier Arregi; Klara Ceberio; Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza

Mention detection: First steps in the development of a Basque coreference resolution system

Ander Soraluze, Olatz Arregi, Xabier Arregi, Klara Ceberio, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza; Proceedings of KONVENS 2012 (Main track: oral presentations), pp. 128-136, September 2012.

Abstract

This paper presents the first steps in the development of a Basque coreference resolution system. We propose a mention detector system based on a linguistic study of the nature of mentions. The system identifies mentions that are potential candidates to be part of coreference chains in Basque written texts. The mention detector is rule-based and has been implemented using finite state technology. It achieves a F-measure of 77.58% under the Exact Matching protocol and of 82.81% under Lenient Matching.

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