--- title: "A Mixed Deterministic Model for Coreference — Yuan 2012" description: "This CoNLL-2012 shared task system tackles coreference resolution for English (closed track) and Chinese (closed and open tracks)." authors: ["Bo Yuan", "Qingcai Chen", "Yang Xiang", "Xiaolong Wang", "Liping Ge", "Zengjian Liu", "Meng Liao", "Xianbo Si"] year: 2012 venue: "Joint Conference on EMNLP and CoNLL - Shared Task" source: "https://aclanthology.org/W12-4507/" licence: "CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (ACL Anthology, before 2016)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yuan-2012-mixed-deterministic-model-coreference-resolution/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yuan-2012-mixed-deterministic-model-coreference-resolution/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2012/) / A Mixed Deterministic Model for Coreference Resolution # A Mixed Deterministic Model for Coreference Resolution **Authors:** [Bo Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-yuan/), Qingcai Chen, [Yang Xiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-xiang/), [Xiaolong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaolong-wang/), Liping Ge, Zengjian Liu, [Meng Liao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-liao/), Xianbo Si · **Year:** 2012 · **Venue:** Joint Conference on EMNLP and CoNLL - Shared Task · **Licence:** [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (ACL Anthology, before 2016)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) **Links:** [Publisher's page](https://aclanthology.org/W12-4507/) · [PDF](https://aclanthology.org/W12-4507.pdf) · [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W2251270810) **Citations:** 9 citations (openalex-snapshot · 2026-10-14) · [4](#cited-by) in our library, of the 140673 papers whose bibliographies we read ## Summary This CoNLL-2012 shared task system tackles coreference resolution for English (closed track) and Chinese (closed and open tracks). It is a hybrid. Most decisions come from hand-written deterministic rules in the spirit of the Stanford multi-pass approach, and a small machine-learning component filters out non-referring mentions. The pipeline has two stages. First, candidate mentions (NPs, pronouns, named entities) are taken from parse trees. Pleonastic English "it" is removed using regular expressions plus a C4.5 decision tree. Second, mentions are grouped by rule families: NP–NP matching (exact, partial, alias/abbreviation, WordNet-based similarity) and pronoun–NP linking driven by gender, number, distance and speaker. The resulting clusters are merged into chains. For Chinese, gender, number and named-entity information were not provided. In the closed track the authors induce them from the training data with patterns. In the open track they use external dictionaries and the LTP parser. Official averaged F1 scores were 58.68 (English), 60.69 (Chinese closed) and 61.02 (Chinese open). Errors from parsing and from external tools turned out to limit performance considerably. ## Key points - Classifying "it" with C4.5 used POS, parse bit, predicate-argument and neighbouring-word features. The training data held 9697 instances, 4043 of them referential, and the classifier reached about 0.68 overall F on the development data. - Pronouns fall into seven rule categories with paired English and Chinese forms. There are extra Chinese-specific rules, for example for 双方 and 其. - Chinese open-track resources were appellation, gender, geographical-name and temporal-word dictionaries, a pinyin-to-character converter, and LTP (for POS, parse and NEs). - Using gold parses, Chinese test F1 rises to 66.46 (closed) and 66.38 (open), which shows how much parse quality matters. The open resources added little. - With gold mentions, F1 reaches 69.88 for English and 76.05 for Chinese, so the rule-based resolution stage still has room for improvement. *Our summary of the paper, in our own words — not its text. The work belongs to its authors; read it at the links above.* Fields: [Linguistics & languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) Topics: [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) ## Cited by Cited by 4 papers of our library cite it (of the 140673 whose bibliographies we read); each has a page here. - [Latent Trees for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fernandes-2014-latent-trees-coreference-resolution/) - [Exploiting Zero Pronouns to Improve Chinese Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kong-2013-exploiting-zero-pronouns-improve-chinese/) - [Error-Driven Analysis of Challenges in Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kummerfeld-2013-error-driven-analysis-challenges-coreference/) - [Deterministic Coreference Resolution Based on Entity-Centric, Precision-Ranked Rules](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2013-deterministic-coreference-resolution-based-entity/) ## Cite The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. ```bibtex @inproceedings{yuan2012mixed, title = {{A Mixed Deterministic Model for Coreference Resolution}}, author = {Yuan, Bo and Chen, Qingcai and Xiang, Yang and Wang, Xiaolong and Ge, Liping and Liu, Zengjian and Liao, Meng and Si, Xianbo}, booktitle = {Joint Conference on EMNLP and CoNLL - Shared Task}, year = {2012}, url = {https://aclanthology.org/W12-4507/} } ``` - [← previous A Fully Coreference-annotated Corpus of Scholarly Papers from the ACL Anthology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schafer-2012-fully-coreference-annotated-corpus-scholarly/) - [next → A Morphological Analyzer for Egyptian Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lingbulk-2012-habash-morphological-analyzer-egyptian-arabic/) - [↑ back to papers of 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2012/) ## References 13 references, 7 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. 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