Rethinking anaphora - Massimo Poesio (website)

Current models of the anaphora resolution task achieve mediocre results for all but the simpler aspects of the task such as coreference proper (i.e. linking proper names into coreference chains). One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the drastically simplified picture of the task at the basis of existing annotated resources and models-e.g., the assumption that human subjects by and large agree on anaphoric judgments. In this talk I will present the current state of our efforts to collect more realistic judgments about anaphora through the Phrase Detectives online game, and to develop models of anaphora resolution that do not rely on the total agreement assumption.