Algorithms for scoring coreference chains

@inproceedings{citeulike:3452831, abstract = {Scoring the performance of a system is an extremely important aspect of coreference algorithm performance. The score for a particular run is the single strongest measure of how well the system is performing and it can strongly determine directions for further improvements. In this paper, we present several different scoring algorithms and detail their respective strengths and weaknesses for varying classes of processing. We also demonstrate that tasks like information extraction have very different needs from information retrieval in terms of how to score the performance of coreference annotation.}, author = {Bagga, Amit and Baldwin, Breck}, booktitle = {In The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Workshop on Linguistics Coreference}, citeulike-article-id = {3452831}, keywords = {chain, coreference, evaluation, scoring}, pages = {563--566}, posted-at = {2008-10-27 11:02:54}, priority = {2}, title = {Algorithms for scoring coreference chains}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.34.2578}, year = {1998} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3452831 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3452831 N2 - Scoring the performance of a system is an extremely important aspect of coreference algorithm performance. The score for a particular run is the single strongest measure of how well the system is performing and it can strongly determine directions for further improvements. In this paper, we present several different scoring algorithms and detail their respective strengths and weaknesses for varying classes of processing. We also demonstrate that tasks like information extraction have very different needs from information retrieval in terms of how to score the performance of coreference annotation. EP - 566 TI - Algorithms for scoring coreference chains T2 - In The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Workshop on Linguistics Coreference SP - 563 KW - chain KW - coreference KW - evaluation KW - scoring AU - Bagga, Amit AU - Baldwin, Breck PY - 1998/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.34.2578 ER -