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171 nips-2009-Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Unsupervised Event Coreference Resolution


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Author: Cosmin Bejan, Matthew Titsworth, Andrew Hickl, Sanda Harabagiu

Abstract: We present a sequence of unsupervised, nonparametric Bayesian models for clustering complex linguistic objects. In this approach, we consider a potentially infinite number of features and categorical outcomes. We evaluated these models for the task of within- and cross-document event coreference on two corpora. All the models we investigated show significant improvements when compared against an existing baseline for this task.


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