Alan Jern


2008

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BART: A Modular Toolkit for Coreference Resolution
Yannick Versley | Simone Paolo Ponzetto | Massimo Poesio | Vladimir Eidelman | Alan Jern | Jason Smith | Xiaofeng Yang | Alessandro Moschitti
Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Demo Session

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BART: A modular toolkit for coreference resolution
Yannick Versley | Simone Ponzetto | Massimo Poesio | Vladimir Eidelman | Alan Jern | Jason Smith | Xiaofeng Yang | Alessandro Moschitti
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

Developing a full coreference system able to run all the way from raw text to semantic interpretation is a considerable engineering effort. Accordingly, there is very limited availability of off-the shelf tools for researchers whose interests are not primarily in coreference or others who want to concentrate on a specific aspect of the problem. We present BART, a highly modular toolkit for developing coreference applications. In the Johns Hopkins workshop on using lexical and encyclopedic knowledge for entity disambiguation, the toolkit was used to extend a reimplementation of Soon et al.’s proposal with a variety of additional syntactic and knowledge-based features, and experiment with alternative resolution processes, preprocessing tools, and classifiers. BART has been released as open source software and is available from http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~versley/BART