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Coreference

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.

Coreference resolution, Relation to bound variables & Types

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Coreference resolution

Computational linguisticsDiscourseReferring expressionsPrecision and recallCluster
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Relation to bound variables

Bound variableQuantified expressions
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Types

Anaphora
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Overview

LinguisticsReferentAntecedentProformCataphoric
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Coreference resolution

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Coreference

Nodes26
Edges25
Triples25
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.076923
Components1

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Coreference

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related to Coreference resolution · 14
Coreference → Algorithms, Anne, As, Bill, Cluster-quality, English, Finally, For, He, In, It, Pronouns, Rand, To
related to Relation to bound variables · 4
Coreference → Bound, Every, Semanticists, The
related to Types · 2
Coreference → Several, When

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expressions example refer bound said variable coreferential linguistics antecedent algorithms pronoun sometimes would often binding resolution commonly pronouns bill use

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
every studentinstance ofThe pronoun his is an example of a bound variableQuantified expressions0.80text
no student are not considered referentialinstance ofThe pronoun his is an example of a bound variableQuantified expressions0.80text
the woman or Anneinstance ofshe might attach to a preceding expression0.80text
but not as probably to Billinstance ofshe might attach to a preceding expression0.80text
himself have much stricter constraintsinstance ofPronouns0.80text
Coreferencerelated to Coreference resolutionIn0.60section
Coreferencerelated to Coreference resolutionTo0.60section
Coreferencerelated to Coreference resolutionAlgorithms0.60section
Coreferencerelated to Coreference resolutionFor0.60section
Coreferencerelated to Coreference resolutionAnne0.60section
Coreferencerelated to Coreference resolutionBill0.60section
Coreferencerelated to Coreference resolutionPronouns0.60section

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