What is it? Disambiguating the different readings of the pronoun 'it'

Sharid Loáiciga; Liane Guillou; Christian Hardmeier

doi:10.18653/v1/D17-1137

What is it? Disambiguating the different readings of the pronoun 'it'

Sharid Loáiciga, Liane Guillou, Christian Hardmeier

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In this paper, we address the problem of predicting one of three functions for the English pronoun `it': anaphoric, event reference or pleonastic. This disambiguation is valuable in the context of machine translation and coreference resolution. We present experiments using a MAXENT classifier trained on gold-standard data and self-training experiments of an RNN trained on silver-standard data, annotated using the MAXENT classifier. Lastly, we report on an analysis of the strengths of these two models.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Place of Publication	Copenhagen, Denmark
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	1336-1342
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-945626-97-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D17-1137
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2017
Event	EMNLP 2017: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 7 Sept 2017 → 11 Sept 2017 http://emnlp2017.net/index.html http://emnlp2017.net/

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Conference	EMNLP 2017: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Abbreviated title	EMNLP 2017
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	7/09/17 → 11/09/17
Internet address	http://emnlp2017.net/index.html http://emnlp2017.net/

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Loáiciga, S, Guillou, L & Hardmeier, C 2017, What is it? Disambiguating the different readings of the pronoun 'it'. in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 1336-1342, EMNLP 2017: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7/09/17. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D17-1137

What is it? Disambiguating the different readings of the pronoun 'it'. / Loáiciga, Sharid; Guillou, Liane; Hardmeier, Christian.
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Copenhagen, Denmark: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017. p. 1336-1342.

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