SANAPHOR: Ontology-based coreference resolution

Roman Prokofyev, Alberto Tonon, Michael Luggen, Loic Vouilloz, Djellel Eddine Difallah, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

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Abstract

We tackle the problem of resolving coreferences in textual content by leveraging Semantic Web techniques. Specifically, we focus on noun phrases that coreference identifiable entities that appear in the text; the challenge in this context is to improve the coreference resolution by leveraging potential semantic annotations that can be added to the identified mentions. Our system, SANAPHOR, first applies state-of-the-art techniques to extract entities, noun phrases, and candidate coreferences. Then, we propose an approach to type noun phrases using an inverted index built on top of a Knowledge Graph (e.g., DBpedia). Finally, we use the semantic relatedness of the introduced types to improve the stateof- the-art techniques by splitting and merging coreference clusters. We evaluate SANAPHOR on CoNLL datasets, and show how our techniques consistently improve the state of the art in coreference resolution.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web – ISWC 2015 - 14th International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings
EditorsMarcelo Arenas, Oscar Corcho, Elena Simperl, Markus Strohmaier, Mathieu d’Aquin, Kavitha Srinivas, Paul Groth, Michel Dumontier, Jeff Heflin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Steffen Staab
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages458-473
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783319250069
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event14th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2015 - Bethlehem, United States
Duration: Oct 11 2015Oct 15 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9366
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBethlehem
Period10/11/1510/15/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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