What is it? Disambiguating the different readings of the pronoun 'it'
- Sharid Loáiciga,
- Liane Guillou,
- Uppsala University,
- University of Edinburgh
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Research Output:
Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter
Article in proceedings
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EnglishPages from-to (Number of pages)
Pages 1325–1331 (7 pages)Publication milestones
- Published - 01/09/2017
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Published - 01/09/2017
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978-1-945626-97-5Publication IDs
- ORCID: /0000-0002-6103-7275/work/106363234
- Scopus: 85054039871
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language ProcessingAbstract
In this paper, we address the problem of predicting one of three functions for the English pronoun `it': anaphoric, event reference or pleonastic. This disambiguation is valuable in the context of machine translation and coreference resolution. We present experiments using a MAXENT classifier trained on gold-standard data and self-training experiments of an RNN trained on silver-standard data, annotated using the MAXENT classifier. Lastly, we report on an analysis of the strengths of these two models.
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