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Everything about Coreference
Two or more expressions in a text with the same referent
In linguistics, coreference, sometimes written co-reference, occurs when two or more expressions refer to the same person or thing; they have the same referent. For example, in Bill said Alice would arrive soon, and she did, the words Alice and she refer to the same person. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: CoreferenceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A brief survey on recent advances in coreference resolutionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Formal Grammar of Switch-Reference (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Coherence and Coreference*Cited 400 times
- Go sideways: Bound variable pronounA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Binding (linguistics)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The relationship between multiple terms that have a common referent.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Coherence and Coreference*
A Machine Learning Approach to Coreference Resolution of Noun Phrases
The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension
Coherence and Coreference Revisited
Coreference and bound anaphora: A restatement of the anaphora questions
Deterministic Coreference Resolution Based on Entity-Centric, Precision-Ranked Rules
Cyclic attraction into networks of coreference
Anaphora and coreference resolution: A review
🆕 Influential since 2022
A brief survey on recent advances in coreference resolution
Coreference Resolution through a seq2seq Transition-Based System
Coreference Delays in Psychotic Discourse: Widening the Temporal Window
A deep neural network model for coreference resolution in geological domain
An ELECTRA-Based Model for Neural Coreference Resolution
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Formal Grammar of Switch-Reference (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)Daniel L. Finer · 2014
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