How useful are similarity word lists for indirect anaphora resolution?
Résumé
This work tests the use of word similarity lists for anaphora resolution in Portuguese and French corpora. We applied an automatic
lexical acquisition technique over parsed texts to identify semantically similar words. We then made use of this lexical knowledge to
resolve coreferential definite descriptions where the head noun of the anaphor is different from the head noun of its antecedent, which
we call indirect anaphora. We compare the results in both languages with a baseline algorithm. Our proposed technique achieved an Fmeasure
of 0.26 for Portuguese and 0.09 for French.
lexical acquisition technique over parsed texts to identify semantically similar words. We then made use of this lexical knowledge to
resolve coreferential definite descriptions where the head noun of the anaphor is different from the head noun of its antecedent, which
we call indirect anaphora. We compare the results in both languages with a baseline algorithm. Our proposed technique achieved an Fmeasure
of 0.26 for Portuguese and 0.09 for French.