Exploiting Cross-Lingual Hints to Discover Event Pronouns
Sharid Loáiciga, Christian Hardmeier, Asad Sayeed · Uppsala University Publications (Uppsala University) · 2020
Non-nominal co-reference is much less studied than nominal coreference, partly because of the lack of annotated corpora. We explorethe possibility of exploiting parallel multilingual corpora as a means of cheap supervision for the classification of three different readingsof the English pronounit: entity, event or pleonastic, from their translation in several languages. We found that the ‘event’ reading isnot very frequent, but can be easily predicted provided that the construction used to translate theitexample is a pronoun as well. Thesecases, nevertheless, are not enough to generalize to other types of non-nominal reference