Dependency-driven Anaphoricity Determination for Coreference Resolution

This paper proposes a dependency-driven scheme to dynamically determine the syntactic parse tree structure for tree kernel-based anaphoricity determination in coreference resolution. Given a full syntactic parse tree, it keeps the nodes and the paths related with current mention based on constituent dependencies from both syntactic and semantic perspectives, while removing the noisy information, eventually leading to a dependency-driven dynamic syntactic parse tree (D-DSPT). Evaluation on the ACE 2003 corpus shows that the D-DSPT outperforms all previous parse tree structures on anaphoricity determination, and that applying our anaphoricity determination module in coreference resolution achieves the so far best performance.