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"abstract": "We describe the systems that we developed for the three tracks of the CODI-CRAC 2021 shared task, namely entity coreference resolution, bridging resolution, and discourse deixis resolution. Our team ranked second for entity coreference, first for bridging resolution, and first for discourse deixis resolution. Entity Coreference Resolution Baseline Xu and Choi's (2020) implementation of Lee et al.'s (2018) span-based model Learning framework A pipeline architecture consisting of a mention detection component and an entity coreference component. The coreference component extends the baseline by (1) adding a sentence distance feature; (2) modifying the objective so that it can output singleton clusters; and (3) enforcing dialoguespecific non-coreference constraints. Markable identification A mention detection model (adapted from Xu and Choi's coreference model) is trained to identify the entity mentions. Training data 90% of the official training and dev sets Development data The remaining 10% of the official training and dev sets Discourse Deixis Resolution Baseline Xu and Choi's (2020) implementation of Lee et al.'s (2018) span-based model Learning framework Joint mention detection and coreference resolution enabled by modifying the objective function in Xu and Choi's model. For mention detection, each span is classified as a candidate anaphor, a candidate antecedent, or a non-mention. For deixis resolution, only candidate anaphors will be resolved, and they can only be resolved to candidate antecedents. The model developed for the Predicted setting differs from those developed for the Gold setting in terms of the heuristics used to determine which spans are candidate anaphors. Markable identification Obtained as part of joint mention detection and deixis resolution Training data Two setups: (1) use all official training and dev sets, leaving out the official dev set of the target domain; and (2) use 90% of the official training and dev sets. Development data Two setups: (1) use only the dev set for the target domain; and (2) use the remaining 10% of the official training and dev sets.",
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"text": "Not only has entity coreference resolution been an active area of research in the NLP community in the past few decades, but recent years have seen considerable progress on entity coreference because of the development of span-based neural models (Lee et al., 2017 (Lee et al., , 2018 . Compared to entity coreference, bridging resolution and discourse deixis resolution are much less studied, and hence they are arguably the more interesting tracks of this shared task. In particular, a relevant question is: can the successes of span-based models be extended from entity coreference to bridging resolution and discourse deixis resolution?",
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"text": "\u2022 for bridging, we adopt a multi-pass sieve approach, where we use Yu and Poesio's (2020) multi-task learning (MTL) model, which jointly identifies bridging and coreference links, as one of the sieves and design a set of sieves that targets a particular kind of bridging links, namely same-head bridging links.",
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