Using Thesaurus Data to Improve Coreference Resolution for Russian
Ilya Azerkovich · 2019
Semantic information about entities, specifically, how close in meaning two mentions are to each other, can become very useful for the task of coreference resolution.One of the most well-researched and widely used forms of presenting this information are measures of semantic similarity and semantic relatedness.These metrics are often computed, relying upon the structure of a thesaurus, but it is also possible to use alternative resources.One such source is Wikipedia, which possesses the category structure similar to that of a thesaurus.In this work we describe an attempt to use semantic relatedness measures, calculated on thesaurus and Wikipedia data, to improve the quality of a coreference resolution system for Russian language.The results show that this is a viable solution and that combining the two sources yields the most gain in quality.