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An Extension of BLANC to System Mentions

Year: 2014

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: BLANC is a link-based coreference evaluation metric for measuring the quality of coreference systems on gold mentions. This paper extends the original BLANC ("BLANC-gold" henceforth) to system mentions, removing the gold mention assumption. The proposed BLANC falls back seamlessly to the original one if system mentions are identical to gold mentions, and it is shown to strongly correlate with existing metrics on the 2011 and 2012 CoNLL data.

Source: Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting

DOI: 10.3115/v1/p14-2005

Authors: Xiaoqiang Luo, Sameer Pradhan, Marta Recasens, Eduard Hovy

Institutions: Harvard University, Google (United States), Carnegie Mellon University

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Award: Temporal relation discovery for clinical text