Enhancing Cross Document Coreference of Web Documents with Context Similarity and Very Large Scale Text Categorization
Jian Long Huang, Pucktada Treeratpituk, Sarah Taylor, Clyde Lee Giles · 2010
Cross Document Coreference (CDC) is the task of constructing the coreference chain for mentions of a person across a set of documents. This work offers a holistic view of using document-level categories, sub-document level context and extracted entities and relations for the CDC task. We train a categorization component with an efficient flat algorithm using thousands of ODP categories and over a million web documents. We propose to use ranked categories as coreference information, particularly suitable for web documents that are widely different in style and content. An