- Bo Lin, Rushin Shah, R. Frederking, A. Gershman. 2010. ENCORE : Experiments with a Synthetic Entity Co-reference Resolution Tool. Abstract: We present ENCORE, a system for entity co-reference resolution that synthesizes the outputs of several off-the-shelf co-reference resolution systems. To boost precision, we filter the output using a named entity recognition tool called SYNERGY which itself is a synthesis of several off-the-shelf NER systems. ENCORE is designed to work under two conditions: NP-CR which resolves noun phrase co-reference and NE-CR which resolves co-references only for named entities. We report the results of our experiments with ENCORE that show 2% to 40% improvements in precision, recall and F-scores over the underlying systems. This opens a promising approach which leverages the existing “black box” state-of-the-art tools without attempting to re-create their achievements and focuses the development efforts on the differences in their output.
