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This paper evaluates the impact of semantic features in coreference resolution for the Portuguese language. We show that the new proposed features obtained on the basis of currently available Portuguese semantic resources improve results in precision, recall and f-measure.
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Different from [17], we did not implement rules “location and numeric mismatches".
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The authors acknowledge the financial support of CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico), CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) and FAPERGS (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Rio Grande do Sul).
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Fonseca, E., Vieira, R., Vanin, A. (2016). Improving Coreference Resolution with Semantic Knowledge. In: Silva, J., Ribeiro, R., Quaresma, P., Adami, A., Branco, A. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9727. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_21
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