Using Lexical and Encyclopedic Knowledge

Yannick Versley, Massimo Poesio, Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Abstract: Semantic information is one of the indispensable ingredients that are necessary to raise the performance of anaphora resolution – both for pronominal anaphors and for anaphoric definite descriptions – beyond the baseline level. In contrast to hard criteria such as binding and agreement constraints, however, the question of semantic constraints and preferences and its operationalization in a system that performs anaphora resolution, is more complex and a larger variety of solutions can be found in practice.