Gesture Salience as a Hidden Variable for Coreference Resolution and Keyframe Extraction

Gesture Salience as a Hidden Variable for Coreference Resolution and Keyframe Extraction

Gesture is a non-verbal modality that can contribute crucial information to the understanding of natural language. But not all gestures are informative, and non-communicative hand motions may confuse natural language processing (NLP) and impede learning. People have little difficulty ignoring irrelevant hand movements and focusing on meaningful gestures, suggesting that an automatic system coul...

Gesture Features for Coreference Resolution

If gesture communicates semantics, as argued by many psychologists, then it should be relevant to bridging the gap between syntax and semantics in natural language processing. One benchmark problem for computational semantics is coreference resolution: determining whether two noun phrases refer to the same semantic entity. Focusing on coreference allows us to conduct a quantitative analysis of ...

Gesture Improves Coreference Resolution

Coreference resolution, like many problems in natural language processing, has most often been explored using datasets of written text. While spontaneous spoken language poses well-known challenges, it also offers additional modalities that may help disambiguate some of the inherent disfluency. We explore features of hand gesture that are correlated with coreference. Combining these features wi...

Coreference Resolution For Information Extraction

Corpus based coreference resolution for Farsi text

"Coreference resolution" or "finding all expressions that refer to the same entity" in a text, is one of the important requirements in natural language processing. Two words are coreference when both refer to a single entity in the text or the real world. So the main task of coreference resolution systems is to identify terms that refer to a unique entity. A coreference resolution tool could be...