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Title Creating a Coreference Resolution System for Italian
Authors Massimo Poesio, Olga Uryupina and Yannick Versley
Abstract This paper summarizes our work on creating a full-scale coreference resolution(CR) system for Italian, using BART ― an open-source modular CR toolkitinitially developed for English corpora. We discuss our experiments onlanguage-specific issues of the task. As our evaluation experiments show, alanguage-agnostic system (designed primarily for English) can achieve aperformance level in high forties (MUC F-score) when re-trained and tested on anew language, at least on gold mention boundaries. Compared to this level, wecan improve our F-score by around 10% introducing a small number oflanguage-specific changes. This shows that, with a modular coreferenceresolution platform, such as BART, one can straightforwardly develop a familyof robust and reliable systems for various languages. We hope that ourexperiments will encourage researchers working on coreference in otherlanguages to create their own full-scale coreference resolution systems ― aswe have mentioned above, at the moment such modules exist only for very fewlanguages other than English.
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Topics Anaphora, Coreference
Full paper Creating a Coreference Resolution System for Italian
Bibtex @InProceedings{POESIO10.755,
  author = {Massimo Poesio, Olga Uryupina and Yannick Versley},
  title = {Creating a Coreference Resolution System for Italian},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)},
  year = {2010},
  month = {may},
  date = {19-21},
  address = {Valletta, Malta},
  editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  isbn = {2-9517408-6-7},
  language = {english}
 }
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