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Coreference difficulties #12

Open cbonial opened 11 years ago

cbonial commented 11 years ago

I have several phrases like "We are roses" said the roses; "I am a fox" said the fox. I'm not sure how to treat the coreference in these sentences, or whether we want some kind of subset relation? This seems like the kind of case where we WOULDN'T want to use a subset relation since the superset isn't actually mentioned. If they are all coreferring (we, roses, roses; I, fox, fox), the AMR representation seems very strange to me. Here's what I have now:

(s / say-01 :ARG0 (r / rose) :ARG1 (r2 / rose :domain r))

simply leaving two different rose entities that aren't coreferring...

And, just to double check, in cases of quotes like this, we wouldn't introduce a pronoun "we", correct? We maintain the coreference with the more specific referent, like "rose" across the quote boundary? We might want to put an example like this in the guidelines, because many of my annotations didn't make the entity mention inside and outside the quote coreferential.

uhermjakob commented 11 years ago

I think you handled these cases very well. I added a new help page on coreferences including your example above at http://www.isi.edu/~ulf/amr/lib/popup/coreference.html