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9 emnlp-2012-A Sequence Labelling Approach to Quote Attribution


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Author: Timothy O'Keefe ; Silvia Pareti ; James R. Curran ; Irena Koprinska ; Matthew Honnibal

Abstract: Quote extraction and attribution is the task of automatically extracting quotes from text and attributing each quote to its correct speaker. The present state-of-the-art system uses gold standard information from previous decisions in its features, which, when removed, results in a large drop in performance. We treat the problem as a sequence labelling task, which allows us to incorporate sequence features without using gold standard information. We present results on two new corpora and an augmented version of a third, achieving a new state-of-the-art for systems using only realistic features.


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