Learning Anaphoricity and Antecedent Ranking Features for Coreference Resolution

Sam Wiseman, Alexander M. Rush, Stuart Shieber, Jason Weston


Abstract

We introduce a simple, non-linear mention-ranking model for coreference resolution that attempts to learn distinct feature representations for anaphoricity detection and antecedent ranking, which we encourage by pre-training on a pair of corresponding subtasks. Although we use only simple, unconjoined features, the model is able to learn useful representations, and we report the best overall score on the CoNLL 2012 English test set to date.